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Абитуриенты штурмуют вузы страны и среди них, несомненно, и истфак МГУ. Экзамены для большинства позади, чем же занятся? Конечно, читать. Кэмбриджский King's College опубликовал свой летний ридинг-лист для поступивших на отделение истории. Вкусности выделим болдом.
English History: suggested introductory reading
(Select a period according to your interests)
Medieval
NB: You may not again have the leisure and inclination to read some of these, so you should certainly do so now if possible.
Novels
Particularly useful for widening your sense of the range of historical enquiry:
Those marked with an asterisk will be particularly useful for thinking about general historical problems:
English History: suggested introductory reading
(Select a period according to your interests)
Medieval
- S Reynolds: Kingdoms and Communities
- J C Schmitt: The Holy Greyhound
- J Holt: Robin Hood
- F Barlow: The Feudal Kingdoms of England 1047-1216
- D Douglas: The Norman Achievement
- D Douglas: William the Conquerer:The Norman Impact on England
- R Hilton: Bondmen Made Free
- G Holmes: The Later Middle Ages 1272-1485
- J R Lander: Conflict and Stability in 15th Century England
- R W Southern: The Making of the Middle Ages
- A Gurevich: Categories of Popular Medieval Culture
- S Shahar: The Fourth Estate: Women in the Middle Ages
- C Russell: The Causes of the English Civil War
- P Laslett: The World we have lost
- J H Plumb: The Growth of Political Stability in England
- J C D Clark: English Society 1688-1832
- K Wrightson: English Society
- J Brewer: The Sinews of Power
- E P Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
- E J Hobsbawm: Industry and Empire
- P Clarke: The Keynesian Revolution in the Making
- P Clarke: Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-1990
- M. Desai: Marx's Revenge
- Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Livy: Histories
- Macaulay: History of England
- Tacitus: Annals
- Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
- Trotsky: History of the Russian Revolution
NB: You may not again have the leisure and inclination to read some of these, so you should certainly do so now if possible.
Novels
- Balzac: Lost Illusions
- Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Conrad: Nostromo
- Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment;The Brothers Karamazov
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Henry James: The Bostonians
- Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward
- Stendhal: The Red and the Black
- Tolstoy: Anna Karenina;War and Peace
- Turgenev: Fathers and Sons
- Zola: Germinal
Particularly useful for widening your sense of the range of historical enquiry:
- J Bossy: Christianity in the West 1400 - 1700
- F Braudel: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the World of Philip II
- E Genovese: Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made
- E Hobsdbawn: Primitive Rebels
- J Levinson & F Schurmann: China: An Interpretative History
- K Thomas: Religion and the Decline of Magic
- E P Thompson: Whigs and Hunters
- J Womack: Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
- P Woodruff: The Men who ruled India
- N Davis: Society and Culture in 18th Century France
- C Ginzburg: The Cheese and the Worms
- D MacCulloch: Reformation
Those marked with an asterisk will be particularly useful for thinking about general historical problems:
- N Bloch: The Historian's Craft
- R G Collingwood: The Idea of History*
- M Foucault: Madness and Civilisation*
- E H Gombrich: Art and Illusion
- C Geertz: The Interpretation of Cultures*
- J Keegan: The Face of Battle
- G Lichtheim: Marxism
- A D Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being
- A Macintyre: A Short History of Ethics
- Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities
- Barrington Moore: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
- W H Walsh: In Introduction to the Philosophy of History
- Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism*
- J Tully & Q Skinner: Meaning and Context*
- J Scott: Gender and the Politics of History
- A Hirschman: The Passions and the Interests*