Modern+History+Bibliography

​ The panel has reviewed the Modern History courses and found it lacking up to date resources. Thus we are required to find resources published in the last 20 years to support these Type 2 Courses. Please find attached a list of the Modern History Courses:

=Contemporary International Issues & Contemporary Issues in Africa & The Middle East=
 * NB Northern Ireland resources need to be deleted for Africa & The Middle East Course
 * Peace in Ireland.
 * Arab – Israel Conflict 1948 – 2010.
 * Fundamentalism.
 * Conflict in South Africa 1948-1994.
 * International Terrorism
 * Rwanda
 * Zimbabwe
 * UN as Peacekeeper

Ali, Tariq 2003, __The clash of fundamentalism: crusades, jihads and modernity__, Verso, London. Barnaby, Frank 2007, __The future of terror: A 21st century handbook__, Granta, London. Barr, Gary E. 2007, __War on terror: is the world a safer place?__, Heinemann Library, Oxford. Bingley, Richard 2004, __Terrorism__, Heinemann Library, Oxford. Beecroft, Simon 2003, __The freeing of Nelson Mandela__, Ticktock Media, Tunbridge Wells. Currie, Stephen 2002, __Terrorists and terrorist groups__, Lucent, San Diego, Calif. Davies, Barry 2004, __Terrorism: Inside a world phenomenon__, Virgin, London. __Death squads in global perspective: Murder with deniability__ 2002, Palgrave Macmillan, New York. Derkins, Susie 2003, __The Irish Republican Army__, Rosen, New York. Dershowitz, Alan 2005, __The case for peace: how the Arab-Israeli conflict can be resolved__, Wiley, New Jersey. Docalavich, Heather 2007, __UN action against terrorism: fighting fear__, Mason Crest, Philadelphia, Pa. Durschmied, Erik 2002, __Blood of revolution: from the reign of terror to the rise of Khomeini__, Arcade, New York. Grant, R.G. 2001, __Conflict in Northern Ireland__, Hodder Wayland, London. Hayhurst, C. 2004, __Israel's war of independence__, in War and Conflict in the Middle East, Rosen, New York. Hibbert, Adam 2006, __Keeping peace in the world__, Franklin Watts, London. Innes, Brian 2003, __International terrorism__, Mason Crest, Broomall, Pa. Jeffrey, Grant R. 2002, __War on terror: Unfolding bible prophecy__, Frontier Research, Toronto. __The Jerusalem question__ 2003, General Palestinian Delegation, Canberra. Kinealy, Christine 2008, __A new history of Ireland__, Tempus. King, John 2006, __Israel and Palestine__, Raintree, Oxford. Laffan, Michael 2005, __The resurrection of Ireland: the Sinn Fein party, 1916-1923__, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Lesch, Ann M. __Origins and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict__, Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut. Libal, Autumn 2007, __International security: peacekeeping and peace-building around the world__, Mason Crest, Philadelphia Pa. Minnis, Ivan 2001, __The Arab-Israeli conflict__, Heinemann, Oxford. O'Kane, Rosemary H.T. 2007, __Terrorism__, Pearson Longman, London. Oren, Michael B. 2003, __Six days of war : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East__, Penguin, London. Pettiford, Lloyd and David Harding 2004, __Terrorism: the undeclared war__, Selectabook, Devizes, Wiltshire. Piggott, Leanne 2008, __The Arab-Israeli conflict: a timeless struggle__, Science Press, Marrickville, NSW. Ross, Stewart 2007, __The Israeli-Palestinian conflict__, Hodder Education, London. Ruthven, Malise 2005, __Fundamentalism: the search for meaning__, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Qassem, Naim 2005, __Hizbullah: the story from within__, SAQI, London. Smith, Jeremy 2002, __Making the peace in Ireland__, Pearson Education, London. Smith, David 2007, __Terrorism__, Wayland, London. Weinberg, Leonard 2005, __Global terrorism: A beginner's guide__, One World, Oxford. Williams, Clive 2004, __Terrorism explained: the facts about terrorism and terrorist groups__, New Holland, Sydney. Whittaker, David J. 2007, __Terrorism: understanding the global threat__, Pearson Education, Harlow. Woolf, Alex 2003, __Fundamentalism__, Wayland, London. Woolf, Alex 2003, __Terrorism: the impact on our lives__, Hodder Wayland, Lewes. __Worlds in collision: Terror and the future of global order__ 2002, Palgrave Macmillan.
 * __Books:__**

__**Electronic** International Crisis Group: Working to prevent world conflict__ 2009, Crisis Group, New York, viewed 9 September, 2009, http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=1193.

=War in the Modern World=
 * Napoleonic Wars
 * Crimean War
 * American Civil War
 * Latin American Wars of Independence
 * Franco-Prussian War
 * Spanish-American War
 * Boer War
 * Balkan Wars
 * WWI
 * WWII
 * Colonial Wars of Liberation
 * Spanish Civil War
 * Cold War
 * Peacekeeping Operations
 * Asymmetric warfare and the War on Terror.

Brawley, Sean, Dixon, Chris & Green, Jeffrey 2005, __Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979__, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Diel, Paul F. 2008, __Peace operations__, Polity, Cambridge. Guest, Vic, Eshuys, Joe & Lawrence, Judith 1990, __World War I: Causes, Course and Consequences__, Macmillan Education, Sydney. Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers 1997, __Emancipating slaves, enslaving free men:a history of the American Civil War__, Open court, Chicago. O'Brien, Carolyn & Merritt, Alan, 1991, __1914-1918: The World at War__//,// Heinemann Educational, London. Parker, Geoffrey (ed.) 1995, __The Cambridge illustrated history of warfare__, Cambridge University Press, New York. Rothenburg, Gunther E. 1999, __The Napoleonic wars__, Cassall, London. Royle, Trevor 1999, __Crimea: the great Crimean War 1854-1856__, Little, Brown and Company, London. Sitkowski, Andrzej 2006, __UN Peacekeeping: Myth and reality__, Praeger, Security International, Westport, Connecticut. Smith, Iain R. 1996, __The origins of the South African war 1899-1902__, Longman, London. Smurthwaite, David 1999, __The Boer War 1899-1902__, Hamlyn, London. Stewart, D., Fitzgerald, J., & Pickard, A. 1995, __The Great War - Sources and Evidence__, Thomas Nelson, Sydney. Van Hartesveldt, Fred R. 2000, __The Boer War__, Sutton, Stroud. Vinovskis, Maris A. (ed.) __Toward a social history of the American Civil War: exploratory essays__, Cambridge University Press, Sydney. Welsh, Douglas 1990, __The complete military history of the American Civil War__, Bison, London.

=War and Resolution in the 20th Century=
 * WWI
 * WWII
 * Cold War
 * Peacekeeping Operations

Briggs, Justin 2005, __The cold war__, in //Contested spaces//, McGraw-Hill, Sydney. Dennett, Bruce and Dixon, Stephen 2005, __Key features of modern history__, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne. Greer, Vicki and Darlington, Robert 2003, __Flashpoints: national and international studies__, Harcourt Education, Port Melbourne.

=Revolutions in the Modern World=
 * The English Revolution (1625-1689)
 * The French Revolution
 * Industrial Revolution
 * The Russian Revolution.
 * The American Revolution
 * The Chinese Revolution
 * The Cuban Revolution
 * Islamic Revolution

Adcock, Michael 2004, __Analysing the French revolution__, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Antohi, Sorin and Tismaneanu, Vladimir (Eds) 1999, __Between past and future: the revolutions of 1989 and their aftermath,__ Plymbridge, Plymouth. Burke, Edmund 2004, __Reflections on the revolution in France__, Penguin, London. Fielding, Mark 1999, __The spirit of change: France in revolution__, McGraw-Hill, Sydney. Hoysted, Merilyn 2001, __The Russian revolution: A student handbook__, HTAV, Collingwood. Kallen, Stuart A. (ed.) 2002, __The age of revolution__, in World history by era, vol. 6, Greenhaven Press, San Diego. Malone, Richard 2004, __Analysing the Russian revolution__, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Smith, S.A. 2008, __Revolution and the people in Russia and China: a comparative history__, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Tismaneanu Vladimir 1999, __The revolutions of 1989__, Routledge, London.

=Russia=
 * Tsarist Russia
 * Rise of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
 * USSR under Stalin
 * The Cold War
 * Détente, Glasnost and the Collapse of Soviet Russia.
 * Post Communist Russia

Laver, John 1997, __Stagnation__ __and reform: the USSR 1964-91,__ Hodder & Stoughton, London. Lynch, Michael 2001, __Stalin and Khruschchev: the USSR 1924-64__, Hodder & Stoughton, London. Oxley, Peter 2001, __Russia____: 1855-1991 from the Tsars to Commissars,__ Oxford University Press, Oxford. Smith, S.A. 2008, __Revolution and the people in Russia and China__, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

=Native & African Americans=
 * Native Americans**
 * Diversity of geographical settings, cultural groups, mythologies, religions and world views, contact and conflict before 19th century
 * Culture of the Plains Indians e.g. cultural groups, mythologies, religions and world views
 * Changing representation of the native American peoples e.g. the noble savage, the brute
 * Native Americans in a European world since 1850 -. the ‘Indian Wars’ and the destruction Traditional (Indian) cultures of culture e.g. reserves and acculturation
 * Changing society and ‘Red Power’ in the 1960s and 1970s
 * Images of native Americans in modern culture.


 * African Americans**
 * Early slavery and the slave trade
 * 19th century American society – the concept of institutional slavery
 * Civil War
 * Reconstruction and ‘Jim Crow’
 * Black America since 1954 - civil rights
 * Analysis of ‘black power’
 * Cultural shifts such as representation in the entertainment industry
 * Political and economic changes – from Reagan to Bush.

Painter, Nell Irvin 2006, __Creating black Americans: African-American history and its meanings, 1619 to the present__, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

=American History=

2. Freedom & Power
Anderson, Maureen, Low, Anne and Keese, Ian 2008, __Retrospective: year 11 modern history__, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Qld. __Great American documents: the landmark documents in our history__ 2007, Quercus, London. Schneider, Dorothy & Schneider, Carl J. 2001, __Slavery in America: from colonial times to the Civil War__, Checkmark, New York.

=Encounters with the West= Pakenham, Thomas 1997, __The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912,__ Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.

Springhall, John 2001, __Decolonization since 1945: the collapse of European overseas empires,__ Palgrave, New York.

Thorn, Gary 2000, __End of empires: European decolonisation 1919-80__ Hodder & Stoughton, London.

Westad, Odd Arne 2007, __The global cold war: Third World interventions and the making of our times,__ Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

'Playing the game - Africa - black star rising', __The Big Picture__ 2001, television series, ABC Television, Sydney, 26 July. (3-part series examining the impact of decolonization and the Cold War on the first of the British, Belgian and French colonies to win freedom in Africa)

=Asian Encounters with the West= Burke, Patrick 1999, __Studies of Asia__, Heinemann, Port Melbourne.

=Decolonisation= Springhall, John 2001, __Decolonization since 1945: the collapse of European overseas empires,__ Palgrave, New York.

Thorn, Gary 2000, __End of empires: European decolonisation 1919-80__ Hodder & Stoughton, London.

=Modern China=

1. Manchu to Mao
Hsu, Immanuel C.Y. 1995, __The rise of modern China__, Oxford University Press, New York.

2. Communism
Shambaugh, David 2008, China's communist party: atrophy and adaption, University of California Press, Berkeley.

=Liberators & Revolutionaries=

=Ghandi & Modern Protest=

=Vietnam & the Killing Fields= Davidson, Leon 2006, __Red haze: Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam__, Black Dog, Melbourne. Eymann, Marcia A. 2004, __What's going on? California and the Vietnam era__, University of California Press, Berkeley. Sexton, Michael 2002, __War for the asking: how Australia invited itself to Vietnam__, New Holland, Sydney.

=India & the Indian Subcontinent in the Modern Era= Metcalf, Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf 2006, __A concise history of modern India__, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

=Modern Japan - Tugkugawa to Today= Allinson, Gary D. 1997, __Japan's postwar history__, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

=Middle East: Search for Resolution=

=Australia=

8. Lairs, Louts & Larrikens
Hoepper, Brian, et al. 2005, __Global voices: historical inquiries for the 21st century__, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Qld. Hoepper, Brian, et al. 2009, __Global voices 2: historical inquiries for the 21st century__, JacarandaPlus, Milton, Qld.

=Germany: Weimer to 1945=

Wheeler-Bennett, J. W 1967 __The nemesis of power: the German Army in politics, 1918-1945,__ St Martins, New York, N.Y. Hite, John 2000 __Weimer and Nazi Germany__, John Murray, London. Kirk, Tim 2007, __Nazi Germany__, Palgrave Macmillan, New York. Martin, David 2001, __Germany 1918 - 1945__ Layton, Geoff 2005 __Weimer and the rise of Nazi Germany 1918 -1933__, Hodder.

=1918-1939=

=World War Two=

=Political Investigations=

=International Relations=

2. 1945 to Present
Lowe, Norman 2005 __Mastering modern world history__, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

=The Cold War to 1969= __Cold War History__, Routledge, Oxfordshire UK (available through ACT library Eresources).

=Britain in the Victorian Age= __Victorian England__ 2000, Greenhaven, San Diego, California. Seaman, LCB 1973 __Victorian England : aspects of English and imperial history 1837-1901__ Routledge.

=The 60s=