Suggested Reading and Media Resources

• Brewer, David. The Greek War of Independence: The Struggle for Freedom and from Ottoman Oppression. 2001. A compelling narrative history that places nation building at the center of the Greek Revolution.

• Evans, Richard J. W. Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Central Europe c. 1683–1867. 2008. A collection of essays by a prominent historian of Germany and central Europe that places special emphasis on nationalism, ethnic diversity, and the revolutions of 1848.

• Ferber, Michael. Romanticism: A Very Brief Introduction. 2010. An accessible overview of the ideas and people associated with European Romanticism.

• Green, Abigail. Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany. 2001. A brilliant discussion of the struggle to shape a sense of national identity in three smaller German states.

• Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848. 1996. An engaging survey of the transformative effects of the Industrial and French Revolutions.

• Kelly, John. The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People. 2012. A well-received, moving history of the Irish potato famine and its social and political causes and consequences.

• Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. 1978. In over one thousand pages, this famous masterpiece offers a critical view of the history of Marxist thought.

• Merriman, John. Police Stories: Building the French State, 1815–1851. 2006. An outstanding and innovative study of the way the professionalization of the police force contributed to the construction of the central state in France.

• Pilbeam, Pamela. French Socialists Before Marx: Workers, Women, and the Social Question. 2000. Shows the significant role of women in utopian socialism.

• Rapport, Mike. 1848: Year of Revolution. 2008. A stimulating, well-written account that examines all of Europe.

• Sked, Alan. Metternich and Austria: An Evaluation. 2008. Explores Metternich’s role in domestic and foreign affairs in the first half of the nineteenth century.

• Sperber, Jonathan. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life. 2013. An evenhanded cradle-to-grave biography of the famous revolutionary theorist.

• Vick, Brian E. The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics After Napoleon. 2014. An original analysis of political culture at the Congress of Vienna and the celebratory spectacles that accompanied Napoleon’s defeat and the return of European peace.

• English Poetry Anthology: The Romantic Poets (Kultur Video, 2006). Documents the Romantic poetry movement in England, featuring Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats.

• Landmarks of Western Art: Romanticism (Kultur Video, 2003). Documents the Romantic movement in painting, highlighting artists such as Turner, Constable, Goya, and Géricault.

• The Rise, from Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (PBS, 2005). The first part of a three-part series, this documentary follows the rise of the socialist movement.

• Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009). A romantic drama about the British Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, whose relationship was cut short by Keats’s early death.

• Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931). Based on the classic Romantic novel by Mary Shelley, the film tells the story of an obsessed scientist who creates a living being in a bizarre science experiment.

• Les Misérables (Bille August, 1998). Adapted from Victor Hugo’s epic novel, the film portrays ex-convict Jean Valjean’s pursuit of redemption. Set in early-nineteenth-century France, the film is also a commentary on the social unrest in France and depicts the student uprising in Paris in 1832.

• Following the Famine. Information about the Irish famine and the passage that many took to North America to escape the famine. irishfamine.ca/

• Fordham University Internet Modern History Sourcebook. An expansive collection of primary sources from all periods, including topics from this chapter such as Metternich and conservatism, liberalism, Romanticism, and the 1848 revolts. www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/modsbook.asp

• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Romanticism. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s overview of the Romantic movement within art, along with a slide show of eighteen pieces of artwork from the period. www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm

• Marxists Internet Archive. This archive offers a vast amount of material and sources related to Karl Marx, communism, and Communist revolutions. marxists.org/index.htm