Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 1991. Famous for its argument about the social construction of nationalism.
Calhoun, Craig. Nationalism. 1997. A clear and concise overview of recent theories of nationalism and national identity.
Clyman, Toby W., and Judith Vowles, eds. Russia Through Women’s Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. 1999. An eye-opening collection detailing women’s experiences in Russia.
Findley, Carter Vaughn. The Turks in World History. 2005. An exciting reconsideration of the Turks in long-term perspective.
Fink, Carole. Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938. 2004. Skilled consideration of the cruelty and tragedy of ethnic conflict and minority oppression.
Geary, Dick, ed. Labour and Socialist Movements in Europe Before 1914. 1989. An excellent collection that examines labor movements in several different countries.
Hennock, E. P. The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850–1914. 2007. Compares Germany’s statist approach with England’s response to demands from below.
Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire, 1875–1914. 1987. A classic interpretative work.
Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terrence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. 1992. An influential collection of articles on the invented nature of modern nationalism.
Lazarski, Christopher. Power Tends to Corrupt: Lord Acton’s Study of Liberty. 2012. A compelling intellectual history that explores the political thought of a seminal British theorist of liberty and its development in Western history.
Mosse, George. Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe. 1985. A pathbreaking and still-relevant work that calls attention to the links between nationalism, racism, and sexuality.
Ridley, Jasper. Garibaldi. 2001. A thorough study of the world-renowned revolutionary nationalist.
Tombs, Robert. France, 1814–1914. 1996. An impressive survey with a useful bibliography.
DOCUMENTARIES
In Search of History: The Infamous Dreyfus Affair (History Channel, 1998). Examines the false accusations of Alfred Dreyfus in France, also known as the Dreyfus affair.
The Internationale (Peter Miller, 2000). Tells the story of a song written in 1871 after the suppression of the Paris Commune, and how that song went on to inspire many other groups and movements.
FEATURE FILMS AND TELEVISION
Fall of Eagles (BBC, 1974). A thirteen-part television drama about the fall of the Habsburgs, Romanovs, and Hohenzollerns from power in the nineteenth century.
La Commune (Paris 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000). A unique drama about the Paris Commune that features hundreds of nonprofessional actors in the roles of the revolutionaries.
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963). An epic tale about the aristocracy of Sicily struggling in the midst of major social upheaval during Garibaldi’s invasion in 1860.
The Wandering Jew (Otto Kreisler, 1920). An early pro-Zionist film that tells the story of Theodor Herzl’s life.
WEB SITES
Discover the Ottomans. An extensive Web site on the history of the Ottoman Empire, which offers pages on the timeline of the empire, the history of military campaigns, rulers of the empire, and the art and culture of the Ottomans. www.theottomans.org/english/index.asp
Fordham University Internet Modern History Sourcebook. “The 19th Century and Western Hegemony,” a section of this Web site, includes documents on nineteenth-century Britain, France, Italy (with documents by Cavour, Garibaldi, and Victor Emmanuel), Russia, other western and eastern European countries, and the United States. www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook.asp
Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair. Information about the Dreyfus affair, including essays and examples of sources that are part of the Lorraine Beitler Collection at the University of Pennsylvania. sceti.library.upenn.edu/dreyfus/
Napoleon.org. The history of the rule of Napoleon III through texts, images, and timelines. www.napoleon.org/en/History/index.asp