Barlow, Thomas Becket (1990; 2002)

Frank Barlow.
Thomas Becket.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986; 1990.
London: The Folio Society, 2002.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

This book is on the Recommended Reading Short List in Cantor's The Civilization of the Middle Ages (1993).

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Frank Barlow (1911–2009).
• The Anarchy (1135-1153).
• Henry II of England (1133-1189, r.1154–1189) aka Henry Curtmantle and Henry Plantagenet.
• Thomas Becket (c.1118-1170).
• Becket controversy (1163-1170).
• Constitutions of Clarendon (1164).
• Investiture Controversy (11th & 12th centuries).
• House of Plantagenet (ruled England during 12th-15th centuries).
• England in the Middle Ages.
• History of England.
• Kingdom of England (927–1707).
• Anglo-Norman England (11th-15th centuries).
• Angevin Empire (12th - early 13th centuries).

Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s (2008)

Alwyn W. Turner.
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s.
London: Aurum Press, 2008.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk; book webpage at author's website.

Author Information:

• Alwyn W. Turner, his website.
• Omniana, blog of Alwyn W. Turner.
• Alwyn W. Turner, Twitter.
• Alwyn W. Turner, University of Chichester.
• Alwyn W. Turner, The Quarto Group (publisher).
• Alwyn Turner, YouTube channel.

Video and Audio:

• Alwyn Turner, "Changing Britain | Keynote" (followed by discussion with David Kynaston), Southbank Centre, London, 18 April 2015.
  (Event webpage at Southbank Centre.)
• Andrew Marr with Alwyn Turner, Tristram Hunt, Janet Daley, and Martin Rowson, The 'death of socialism'?, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 02 April 2012 (copy on YouTube).
  This discussion frequently touches on Turner's ebook Things Can Only Get Bitter: The Lost Generation of 1992, Aurum Press, 2012. [Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk.] Extract at New Statesman.

Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967)

Kenneth M. Stampp.
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1967.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Links:

• Kenneth M. Stampp, Wikipedia.
• History of the United States (1849–65), Wikipedia.
• History of the United States (1865–1918), Wikipedia.
• Reconstruction Era, Wikipedia.

Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (2004)

Francis Wheen.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions.
London: Fourth Estate, 2004.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2004.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

The book was initially published in the USA with the title Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense [Google Books] but the later USA paperback edition reverted to the UK title How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World.

Author information:

• Francis Wheen (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
• Francis Wheen, Twitter.
• Francis Wheen, Fourth Estate Publisher.
• Private Eye.
• Francis Wheen, "Francis Wheen's top 10 modern delusions," The Guardian, 03 February 2004.
• "A life in writing," Interview by Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian, 28 August 2009.

Video: Francis Wheen

• Francis Wheen and Chris Lehmann, "Book Discussion on Idiot Proof," Borders Books and Music, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 24 June 2004.

Book Reviews:

• David McKie, "Twaddle unswaddled," The Guardian, 07 February 2004.
• Chris Lehmann, "Balderdashing Into Doom," The Washington Post, 22 June 2004.

Wheen, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2010)

Francis Wheen.
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia.
London: Fourth Estate / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009, 2010.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2010.

Book information: Publisher, UK hardcover; Publisher, UK paperback; Google Books, UK hardcover; Google Books, UK paperback; Amazon.co.uk hardcover; Amazon.co.uk paperback; Google Books, US hardcover; Amazon.com, US hardcover.

Francis Wheen:

• Francis Wheen, Wikipedia.
• "A life in writing," Interview by Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian, 28 August 2009.
• Francis Wheen, Twitter.
• Francis Wheen, Fourth Estate Publisher.

Book Reviews:

• Denis MacShane, "Strange Days Indeed, By Francis Wheen," The Independent, 4 September 2009.
• Andrew Anthony, "Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen," The Observer, 5 September 2009.
• Andy Beckett, "Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen," The Guardian, 11 September 2009.
• Simon O'Hagan, "Strange Days Indeed, By Francis Wheen," The Independent, 20 September 2009.
• Peter Carlson, Book review, The Washington Post, 7 March 2010.

Ferguson, et al., editors, The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010)

Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargent, editors.
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Links:

• 1970s, Wikipedia.
• Globalization, Wikipedia.
• Economic globalization, Wikipedia.

Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (1995; 1998; 2007)

Tom Engelhardt.
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
First published: New York: Basic Books / HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1995.
A revised edition was published in 2007.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Tom Engelhardt Links:

• Tom Engelhardt, Wikipedia.
• TomDispatch.com edited by Tom Engelhardt.
• Tom Engelhardt articles at TomDispatch.com.
• The American Empire Project, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, Inc. / Macmillan -- a book imprint founded and edited by Tom Engelhardt.

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1945–64).
• History of the United States (1964–80).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• United States in the 1950s.
• 1950s.
• 1960s.
• 1970s.
• 1980s.

Miller, New World Coming : The 1920s and the Making of Modern America (2003)

Nathan Miller.
New World Coming : The 1920s and the Making of Modern America.
New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2003.
Da Capo Press (Perseus Books Group), 2004.

Book information: Publisher, paperback; Publisher, e-book; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author information:

• "Prolific U.S. Naval Historian, Biographer Nathan Miller Dies," The Washington Post, 25 October 2004.
• Frederick N. Rasmussen, "Nathan Miller, 77, reporter, author," The Baltimore Sun, 26 October 2004.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Roaring Twenties, Wikipedia.
• 1920s, Wikipedia.
• History of the United States (1918–45), Wikipedia.
• List of years in literature: 1920s, Wikipedia.

Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931)

Frederick Lewis Allen.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s.
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010.
First published: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1931.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Frederick Lewis Allen (1890-1954).
• Allen wrote a similar book on the 1930s:
  Frederick Lewis Allen. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1940.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900-1950. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Revised edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Roaring Twenties.
• 1920s.
• History of the United States (1918–45).
• List of years in literature: 1920s

Gitlin, The Sixties (1993)

Todd Gitlin.
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, revised edition.
New York: Bantam Books (Random House), 1993 (first published 1987).

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Some Todd Gitlin links:

• Todd Gitlin, Wikipedia.
• Todd Gitlin, ToddGitlin.net, his website.
• Todd Gitlin, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.
• Todd Gitlin articles at The Nation.
• Todd Gitlin articles at Salon.com.
• Todd Gitlin, "The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs," TomDispatch.com, 27 June 2013.

I have collected links/references, including many lecture videos, on the history of the United States during the 1960s in my posts for the following books:

• Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994).
• Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).

Gitlin's book is a mixture: part personal and political memoir of the SDS and New Left; part historical survey of the 1960s. Readers should probably have read one of the more general historical survey books like that of Farber or Patterson before reading Gitlin's book.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Students for a Democratic Society (1960-1969).
• Port Huron Statement (1962).
• New Left (1960s).
• Weathermen / Weather Underground.
• COINTELPRO.
• United States in the 1950s.
• 1960s.
• History of the United States (1945–64).
• History of the United States (1964–80).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Counterculture of the 1960s.
• Vietnam War.
• African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68).
• Feminist Movement.

A more recent book by Todd Gitlin:

Todd Gitlin. Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street. New York: It Books / HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

• Todd Gitlin, "OCCUPY The Moment, The Movement, The Future," University of Illinois at Chicago, 24 February 2012. Vimeo video.
• Book TV at Columbia University: Todd Gitlin, "Occupy Nation", BookTV.org, C-SPAN2, 04 June 2012.
  In this C-SPAN conversation Gitlin also answers questions about his political activism during the 1960s.
• "Occupy's Predicament: The Moment and the Prospects for Movement," London School of Economics, 18 October 2012.
  LSE event webpage. YouTube video.
• "A Book Talk with Todd Gitlin," Machiah Center, New Gloucester, Maine and Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 11 September 2012.
  Machiah Center event webpage. YouTube video.

Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995; 2002)

H. W. Brands.
The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
First published: New York: St Martin's Press, 1995.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

The 2002 paperback edition lacks the illustrations of the 1995 hardback edition.

Author information:

• hwbrands.com, website of H. W. Brands.
• H.W. Brands, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin.
• H. W. Brands, Wikipedia.
• H. W. Brands, "Founders Chic," The Atlantic, September 2003.

Video: H. W. Brands

• Brian Lamb and H. W. Brands, Book Discussion on The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s, Booknotes, C-SPAN, 26 February 1996.
• In Depth: H.W. Brands, BookTV, C-SPAN, 03 July 2005.

Video: U.S. Presidents of the 1890s

• "Life Portrait of Benjamin Harrison," American History TV, C-SPAN, 20 August 1999.
  President 1889–1893; Benjamin Harrison, Wikipedia.
• "Life Portrait of Grover Cleveland," American History TV, C-SPAN, 13 August 1999.
  President 1885–1889 and 1893–1897; Grover Cleveland, Wikipedia.
• "Life Portrait of William McKinley," American History TV, C-SPAN, 23 August 1999.
  President 1897-1901; William McKinley, Wikipedia.

Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

• Jeremi Suri, "America in the 1890s," The University of Texas at Austin, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 12 February 2015.
• Edward O’Donnell, "19th Century Anti-Immigrant Movements," College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 1 October 2014.
• Chester Fontenot, "Life and Legacy of Booker T. Washington," Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 16 September 2014.
• Tamara Brown, "American Racial Concepts and Plessy v. Ferguson," Bowie State University, Maryland, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 6 March 2014.
• Daniel Czitrom, "Muckraking Journalist Jacob Riis and Gilded Age New York City," Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 10 February 2014.
  Some books by Daniel Czitrom:
  • Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom, Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York, New Press, 2007; The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Daniel Czitrom, New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert D. Johnston, "1890s American Populist Movement," University of Illinois at Chicago, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 6 February 2013.
  Book discussed: Charles Postel, The Populist Vision, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Eric Foner, "Socialism in Early 20th Century America," Columbia University, New York City, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 29 February 2012.
• James Connolly, "Immigration and the Roots of Pluralism in the U.S.," Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 16 February 2012.
  James Connolly, Ball State University.
  History of immigration to the United States, Wikipedia.
• Mitchell Lerner, "Roots of Progressivism and Theodore Roosevelt," Ohio State University at Newark, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 18 January 2011.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• 1890s.
• History of the United States (1865–1918).
• Gilded Age, 1870s-1900s.
• Progressive Era, 1890s-1920s.
• Panic of 1873.
• Long Depression, 1873-1879 or 1873-1896.
• Panic of 1893.
• Gold standard.

Prologue : Coming of Age, or Coming Apart
The 1890s and 1990s compared.
"Yet the story of the 1890s also possesses significance beyond its inherent color and drama. How America survived the last decade of the nineteenth century . . . reveals much about the American people. What it reveals can be of use to a later generation of those people, situated similarly on the cusp between an old century and a new one." (page 5)

Chapter 1 : The Lost Frontier
I. Land Run of 1893; Cherokee Outlet also called the Cherokee Strip; Land run. II. Dawes Act (1887); Aboriginal title in the United States; Sitting Bull (c.1830-1890); Ghost Dance movement; Wounded Knee Massacre (1890). III. Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932); "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" 1893; Frontier Thesis. IV. Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835–1915); Henry Adams (1838–1918). V. Brooks Adams (1848-1927).

Chapter 2 : In Morgan We Trust
I. World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair), Chicago 1893. II. War of Currents, late 1880s; Thomas Edison (1847-1931); George Westinghouse (1846-1914); Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). III. Electrification; Film: History; Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904). IV. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937); Standard Oil. V. Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919); Merritt Brothers; Mesabi Iron Range, Minnesota. VI. J. P. Morgan (1837–1913); Rail transportation in the United States; Panic of 1893, United States Treasury gold crisis of 1893; Coinage Act of 1873 demonitized silver; Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890) repealed in 1893. VII. Grover Cleveland mouth tumor removal in Summer 1893. VIII. Elbert Gary (1846-1927); United States Steel Corporation.

Chapter 3 : How the Other Half Lived
I. Jacob Riis (1849–1914), How the Other Half Lives (1890) [Wikipedia; Google Books; Archive.org]. II. S. S. McClure (1857–1949); Muckraker; Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903), Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894) [Google Books; Archive.org]; Ray Stannaard Baker (1870-1946); Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936); Ida Tarbell (1857-1944). III. Progressive movement. IV. Immigration. V. Jane Addams (1860-1935), Twenty Years at Hull-House: with Autobiographical Notes (1910) [Archive.org, 1910 copy; Archive.org, 1911 copy; Google Books, 1911 copy]. VI. Political machines in the United States; Tammany Hall; Richard Croker (1843–1922) boss of Tammany Hall during the 1890s. VII. George W. Plunkitt (1842–1924). VIII. William T. Stead, If Christ Came to Chicago! (1894) [Google Books; Archive.org, Chicago edition; Archive.org, London edition]; Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna (1858-1946); "Bathhouse" John Coughlin (1860-1938); Charles Yerkes (1837–1905). IX. Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1904) [Wikipedia; Archive.org].

Chapter 4 : Blood on the Water
I. Homestead Strike of 1892; Carnegie Steel Company. II. Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919); Pinkerton National Detective Agency; Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884). III. Alexander Berkman (1870-1936). IV. American Railway Union; Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926); George Pullman (1831-1897); Pullman Strike of 1894. V. Richard Olney (1835–1917); John Peter Altgeld (1847–1902) Governor of Illinios 1893-1897. VI. Lyman Trumbull (1813-1896); Clarence Darrow (1857-1938). VII. Jacob Coxey (1854–1951); Coxey's Army, 1894.
The Johnson County Range War, Wyoming 1892, is not discussed by Brands.

Chapter 5 : The Matter with Kansas
I. Farmers & Agriculture in the 1890s; American Farm Discontent; Populism. II. The Grange; Farmers' Alliance; Mary E. Lease of Kansas (1850-1933); "Sockless Jerry" Simpson of Kansas (1842-1905); Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota (1831-1901); James B. Weaver of Iowa (1833-1912); "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman of South Carolina (1847-1918); Thomas E. Watson of Georgia (1856–1922). III. People's Party (United States) also called the Populist Party; United States presidential election, 1892. IV. Silver issue; Coinage Act of 1873 demonetized silver, called by Populists the "Crime of '73". V. William Harvey, Coin's Financial School (1894). VI. William Allen White (1868-1944); "What's the Matter with Kansas?" The Emporia Gazette, 15 August 1896.

Chapter 6 : Plessy v. Crow
I. Reconstruction Era; Compromise of 1877. II. Jim Crow laws; Albion Winegar Tourgée (1838–1905); Homer Plessy (1862-1925). III. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). IV. Henry Billings Brown (1836–1913), Associate Justice wrote majority decision; John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), Associate Justice wrote dissent from majority decision. V. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915); Tuskegee Institute; Atlanta Exposition Speech by Booker T. Washington, 18 September 1895; Atlanta compromise. VI. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963). VII. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) is not discussed by Brands; Wells's notable work "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" was first published in 1892.

Chapter 7 : Cross of Gold, Tongue of Silver
United States presidential election, 1896; William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925); Cross of Gold speech, 1896. Thomas Reed (1839–1902); William McKinley (1843–1901); Mark Hanna (1837–1904).

Chapter 8 : Democratic Imperialism
Intellectual and Political Legitimacy for Imperialism: Manifest destiny; New Imperialism; Manifest destiny: Beyond North America; John Fiske (1842-1901); Josiah Strong (1847–1916); Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); Alfred T. Mahan (1840-1914); Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924); Albert J. Beveridge (1862-1927).
Popular Legitimacy for Imperialism: Yellow journalism; Propaganda of the Spanish–American War.
Legislative and Judicial Legitimacy for Imperialism: Teller Amendment (1898); Platt Amendment (1901); Insular Cases.
Imperialism: Hawaii: Overthrow of 1893; Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898); Spanish–American War (1898); Philippine–American War (1899–1902).

Some Notable Books and Articles:

Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills, 1861.

Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, 1873.

Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879.

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, 1880; 1908.

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884.

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, 1885.

William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, 1885.

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887, 1888.

Emily Dickinson, Poems, 1890.

William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, 1890.

Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783, 1890.

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890.

Henry Adams, The History of the United States of America 1801–1817, 1891-1896.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, written 1888-1891, first published 1924.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper, 1892.

Ida B. Wells, "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases," 1892.

Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 1893.

Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," 1893.

Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth, 1894.

Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware, 1896.

William Allen White, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" The Emporia Gazette, 15 August 1896.

Alfred T. Mahan, The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future, 1897.

Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 1899.

Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, 1899.

Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899.

Brooks Adams, America's Economic Supremacy, 1900.

Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900.

Frank Norris, The Octopus: A Story of California, 1901.

Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, 1901.

W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903.

Frank Norris, The Pit: A Story of Chicago, 1903.

Henry Adams, Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, 1904.

Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, 1904.

Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company, 1904.

William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, 1905.

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, 1905.

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906.

Herbert David Croly, The Promise of American Life, 1909.

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, 1910.

Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays, 1910.

Theodore Dreiser, The Financier, 1912.

Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, 1913.

Willa Cather, My Antonia, 1918.

Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, 1919.

See also List of years in literature: 1890s (Wikipedia).

Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages (1953; 1998)

R. W. Southern.
The Making of the Middle Ages.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.
London: The Folio Society, 1998.
First published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953 and London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., 1953.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

This book focuses on Western Europe or Latin Christendom during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, also with some discussion of the adjacent centuries immediately preceeding and following this period.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• R. W. Southern (1912–2001).
• Middle Ages.
• Early Middle Ages (5th - 10th centuries).
• High Middle Ages (11th - 13th centuries).
• Late Middle Ages (14th & 15th centuries).

This book is on the Recommended Reading Short List in Cantor's The Civilization of the Middle Ages (1993).

Danziger & Gillingham, 1215: The Year of Magna Carta (2003)

Danny Danziger & John Gillingham.
1215: The Year of Magna Carta.
London: Hodder & Stoughton / Hodder Headline, 2003.
London: Coronet Books / Hodder & Stoughton / Hodder Headline, 2004 (paperback).
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Book information: Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, with preview; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• The Anarchy (1135-1154).
• Henry II of England (1133-1189, r.1154–1189) aka Henry Curtmantle and Henry Plantagenet.
• Richard I of England (1157-1199, r.1189-1199) aka Richard Cœur de Lion and Richard the Lionheart.
• John, King of England (1166-1216, r.1199-1216) aka John Lackland.
• Magna Carta (1215).
• First Barons' War (1215–1217).
• England in the Middle Ages.
• History of England.
• Kingdom of England (927–1707).
• Anglo-Norman England (11th-15th centuries).
• Angevin Empire (12th - early 13th centuries).
• House of Plantagenet (ruled England during 12th-15th centuries).
• Constitution of the United Kingdom.

Jotischky & Hull, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World (2005)

Andrew Jotischky & Caroline Hull.
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World.
London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2005.

Book information: Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages (1993)

Norman F. Cantor.
The Civilization of the Middle Ages,
A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a Civilization.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, hardback out-of-print; Amazon.com, paperback.

Norman Cantor, Wikipedia.

Middle Ages, Wikipedia.

Video:

• Paul Freedman, "HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000" (YouTube playlist), Open Yale Courses, Fall 2011.
• Waldemar Januszczak, The Dark Ages: An Age of Light, ZCZ Films and BBC, 2012.
  About the series: Wikipedia; BBC. You might find the episodes on YouTube.

Recommended Reading: A Short List (pages 569-570):
Cantor writes: "Here is a short reading program in medieval history that, if mastered, will make you well informed on the subject . . . . The order listed here approximates the chronological sequence of the subjects the books are dealing with."

• Peter Brown. Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, A New Edition with an Epilogue. University of California Press, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Richard Krautheimer. Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308. Princeton University Press, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Georges Duby. The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century. Cornell University Press, 1978.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Marenbon. Early Medieval Philosophy 480-1150: An Introduction, second edition. London: Routledge, 1988.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Pierre Riche. Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Marc Bloch. Feudal Society, Volume 1: The Growth of Ties of Dependence; Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization. University of Chicago Press, 1964.
  [Publisher, Volume 1; Publisher, Volume 2; Google Books, Volume 1; Google Books, Volume 2; Amazon.com, Volume 1; Amazon.com, Volume 2.]
• Jonathan Riley-Smith. The Crusades: A History, second edition. Yale University Press, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• R. W. Southern. The Making of the Middle Ages. Yale University Press, 1961.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frank Barlow. Thomas Becket. University of California Press, 1990.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Knowles. Evolution of Medieval Thought, second edition. London: Longman Group, 1989.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Joseph R. Strayer. On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State. Princeton University Press, 1970; 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jeffrey Richards. Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 1991; 1994.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error. George Braziller Inc., 2008 (first published 1975).
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Donald R. Howard. Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World. New York: Ballantine Books (Random House, Inc.), 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

The Middle Ages on Film (pages 567-568):
Cantor writes:

Films are not a substitute for history books, but films can evoke the ambience and sensibility, as well as the visual locus of the Middle Ages, not only in a supplementary reinforcing and entertaining manner, but sometimes in a distinctly perceptive and persuasive way. Here are the ten best films ever made with a medieval context, ranked approximately in order of merit. The story lines of three of them occurr outside the conventional medieval era, but nevertheless describe scenes and events that are still medieval. One takes place in Japan, but in a social context directly parallels the European situation. It will be noted that among the directors of these films are some of the greatest directors of all time: Eisenstein, Bergman, Kurosawa, Olivier, Pasolini, Russell.

1. The Seventh Seal (1957) directed by Ingmar Bergman.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb; Criterion.]
2. Ran (1985) directed by Akira Kurosawa.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb; Criterion.]
3. Henry V (1944) directed by Laurence Olivier.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb; Criterion.]
   Another film version of Shakespeare's play:
   Henry V (1989) directed by Kenneth Branagh.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb.]
4. The Name of the Rose (1986) directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb.]
5. Alexander Nevsky (1938) directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb; Criterion.]
6. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) directed by Daniel Vigne.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb.]
7. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988) directed by Vincent Ward.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb.]
8. Black Robe (1991) directed by Bruce Beresford.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb.]
9. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
   [Wikipedia; IMDb.]
10. The Devils (1971) directed by Ken Russell.
    [Wikipedia; IMDb.]

See also Middle Ages in film, Wikipedia and Medieval Studies for the Nonspecialist, ORB.

Some Websites:

• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
• Online Textbooks at ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall, hosted by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University.
• Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog.
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, Sponsored by Georgetown University.
• Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature.
• Medieval Realms (on illuminated manuscripts), British Library.
• Got Medieval, see especially the posts labeled "Mmm . . . Marginalia".
• Medieval Studies, Stanford Libraries.
• bibliotheca Augustana, litteraturae et artis collectio.
• The Latin Library.
• Medievalists.net.
• Gothic Ivories Project, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
• 400-1300 The Medieval & Byzantine Eras, smARThistory, Khan Academy.

Supplements to Cantor's text:

Cantor's text lacks maps so the reader should have some kind of historical atlas handy.

Cantor's Medieval Reader is now out of print, but many other readers/anthologies exist; for example: Geary; Rosenwein; Ross & McLaughlin; Slocum; University of Chicago. See also the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Halsall editor.

• The Medieval Reader. Norman F. Cantor, editor. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994; 1995.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Colin McEvedy. The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History, revised edition. Penguin Books, 1992.
  [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Andrew Jotischky & Caroline Hull. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World. Penguin Books, 2005.
  [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Periodis Web - A Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000.

Rosen, Justinian's Flea (2007)

William Rosen.
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe.
New York: Viking Penguin, 2007.
The paperback edition is titled: Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (2008).

Book information: Book Website; Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Paul Freedman, "HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000" (YouTube playlist), Open Yale Courses, Fall 2011.

Some Book Reviews:

• Ian Pindar, "Round the world on a rat," The Guardian, 04 May 2007.
• Raymond J. Dattwyler, Book Review, The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 357, pages 1354-1355, September 27, 2007.
• Eamon Duffy, "‘The First Great Pandemic in History’," The New York Review of Books, 29 May 2008.
  This is not a review of Rosen's book but of another and more focused book published about a year before Rosen's: Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. Lester K. Little, editor. Cambridge University Press, 2006 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com].

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Justinian I (c.482-565; r.527-565).
• Decline of the Roman Empire.
• Fall of the Western Roman Empire.
• Byzantine Empire.
• Late Antiquity.
• Early Middle Ages.
• Plague of Justinian (542 and after).
• Medieval demography.

The book's title perhaps misleadingly suggests that the book is narrowly focusd on a plague episode during the reign of Justinian; instead, the book is a very quick survey of the Late Antiquity period, from the third to the seventh centuries, with the Plague of Justinian presented as one of several major turing points in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

[Prologue, 540] : Pelusium; History of Alexandria: Roman era; Plague of Justinian.

[Ch One, 286-470] : Crisis of the Third Century (235-284); Dominate (284-476); Diocletian (r. 284-305); Tetrarchy (293-313); Constantine (r. 306-337); Constantine the Great and Christianity; Constantinople; Byzantine Empire.

[Ch Two, 337-518] : Decline of the Roman Empire; Western Roman Empire (285-480); Fall of the Western Roman Empire; ---- Migration Period; Goths; Visigoths; Ostrogoths; ---- Cassiodorus (c.485–c.585); Jordanes (6th century) author of Getica, a history of the Gothic people; Ulfilas (c.310-383) Arian Christian bishop and missionary to the Goths; ---- Constantinian dynasty (r.293-363); Julian (r.361-363); Battle of Samarra (363); Ammianus Marcellinus (320s-390s) author of Res Gestae, available as The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378, Walter Hamilton, translator, Penguin Classics, 1986 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com]; Valens (r.364-378); Battle of Adrianople (378); Theodosius I (r.379-395), last single emperor of both western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire; ---- Honorius (r.395-423) western Roman Emperor; Stilicho (c.359–408) considered along with Aetius the last great western Roman generals; Alaric I (r.395–410) king of the Visigoths; Sack of Rome (410) by the Visigoths; Galla Placidia regent 421 or 423-437 for her son the western Emperor Valentinian III (r.425-455) who, like Honorius to Stilicho, kills his best general Aetius (c.396–454) who is credited with preventing further collapse of the western empire from the 430s to 454. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, Italy; ---- Huns; Attila (d.453); Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451) Hun incursion into Gaul halted and reversed; ---- Ricimer (c.405-472); Odoacer, King of Ostrogoths 476-493; Theodoric Strabo (d.481); Ostrogothic Kingdom (493-553), successor to the extinguished Western Roman Empire; Theoderic the Great (454-526) King of Ostrogothic Kingdom 493-526; ---- Theodosius II (r.408-450); Marcian (r.450-457); Leo I (r.457-474); Zeno (r.474-475 and 476-491); Anastasius (r.491-518); ---- State church of the Roman Empire.

[Ch Three, 518-530] : Boethius (c.480-524); ---- Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty; Byzantine Empire; Justin I (r.518-527); Justinian I (r.527-565); Theodora (c.500-548); ---- Belisarius (c.500-565); Battle of Dara (530).

[Ch Four, 530-537] : Chariot racing: Byzantine era; Hippodrome of Constantinople; Horses of Saint Mark; Nika riots (532); Mundus (d.536); Hagia Sophia; Isidore of Miletus; Anthemius of Tralles.

[Ch Five, 533-537] : John the Cappadocian (6th century); Tribonian (c.485–547); Corpus Juris Civilis also called the Code of Justinian; Novellae Constitutiones also called Justinian's Novels; English translations of these works: Annotated Justinian Code by Fred H. Blume; Justinian's Novels by Fred H. Blume.

[Ch Six, 533-540] : Vandals led by Genseric (c.389-477) conquer the Roman province of Africa in the 420s and 430s; ---- Belisarius (c.500-565); Antonina (c.484–after 565); Vandalic War (533-534) in which the Romans conquer Africa; Amalasuntha (c.495–534/535); Gothic War (535–554) in which the Romans conquer the Ostrogothic Kingdom (and temporarily retake Italy); Mundus (d.536); Narses (478-573).

[Ch Seven] : Bacteria: Yersinia pestis; Flea: Xenopsylla cheopis also called the Oriental rat flea.

[Ch Eight] : Rat: Rattus rattus also called the Black rat; Disease: Bubonic plague; Pneumonic plague; Septicemic plague; Epidemiology: Epidemiology; Pandemic; Disease Dynamics: Mathematical modelling of infectious disease.

[Ch Nine, 540-542] : Plague of Justinian; Extreme weather events of 535–536, suggested as creating environmental conditions conducive to the spread of plague vectors; Procopius (c.500–c.565).

[Ch Ten, 523-545] : Sassanid Empire; Khosrau I (r.531–579); Ctesiphon.

[Ch Eleven, 545-664] : Franks; Merovingian dynasty (5th-8th centuries); Clovis (c.466–511); Gregory of Tours (c.538–594) author of History of the Franks, Lewis Thorpe, translator, Penguin Classics, 1974 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com]. ---- End of Roman rule in Britain (383-410); Anglo-Saxon England (400-1066); Bede (672/673–735) aka the Venerable Bede; Bede documented episodes of plague in the British Isles during the Seventh Century in: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (731) Ecclesiastical History of the English People: (1) Leo Sherley-Price, translator, D. H. Farmer, editor, Penguin Classics, 1990 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com]; (2) Judith McClure and Roger Collins, translators, Oxford University Press, 2009 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com].

[Ch Twelve, 548-558] : Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.

[Ch Thirteen, 559-565] : Silk Road.

[Epilogue, 636] : Maurice (r.582-602); Phocas (r.602-610); Heraclius (r.610-641); ---- Muslim conquests; Arab conquest of Roman Syria: 634–638; Battle of Yarmouk (636); Khalid ibn al-Walid (592–642) aka the Sword of Allah.


Bibliographical Note (pages 347-349):

• Peter Brown. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989 (First published: London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1971). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Warren Treadgold. A History of the Byzantine State and Society. Stanford University Press, 1997. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Julius Norwich. Byzantium: The Early Centuries. New York: Knopf, 1989. [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Averil Cameron. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700, second edition. Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2012. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Edward Gibbon. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776-1789. [Wikipedia; The Online Library of Liberty.]
• J. B. Bury. History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, two volumes. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1958 (first published: London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1923). [Publisher, volume one; Publisher, volume two; Google Books, volume one; Google Books, volume two; Amazon.com, volume one; Amazon.com, volume two.]
• A. H. M. Jones. The Later Roman Empire, 284-602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 (first published: 1964 in four volumes). [Google Books, volume one; Google Books, volume two; Amazon.com, two volume set.]
• The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian. Michael Maas, editor. Cambridge University Press, 2005. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook, second edition. Michael Maas, editor. Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2010. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Byzantine Studies Program, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
  Print and Digital Resources for Scholars, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
  Byzantine Online Publications, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
  Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press.
• Robert Browning. Justinian and Theodora. 1971; 1987; 2003. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Herwig Wolfram. History of the Goths. Thomas J. Dunlap, translator. University of California Press, 1990. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• L. H. Fauber. Narses: Hammer of the Goths. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• R. J. Mainstone. Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure, Liturgy of Justinian's Great Church. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988 (paperback 2002). [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• Tony Honore. Tribonian. Cornell University Press, 1978. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• J. A. S. Evans. Procopius. Twayne Publishers or Irvington Publishers, 1972. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• Richard N. Frye. The History of Ancient Iran. Munchen: Beck, 1984. [Google Books; AbeBooks.com; Amazon.com.]
• Wendy Orent. Plague. New York: Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2004; 2012. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William H. McNeill. Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1976; New York: Random House, 1989; 1998. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Byzantine Studies, edited by Paul Halsall.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook, edited by Paul Halsall.
• Overview of Late Antiquity by Steven Muhlberger, Professor of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario.
• Online Textbook of Bacteriology by Kenneth Todar.
• John of Ephesus (c.507–c.586), Ecclesiastical History.
• Evagrius Scholasticus (6th century), Ecclesiastical History.
• Prokopios aka Procopius of Caesarea (c.500–c.565):
  • Anekdota or The Secret History:
    (1) The Secret History with related texts. Anthony Kaldellis, translator. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 2010. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (2) The Secret History. G. A. Williamson, translator; Peter Sarris, editor. Penguin Classics, 1966; 2007. [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (3) Secret History. H. B. Dewing, translator. Loeb Classical Library, number 290.
  • History of the Wars. Loeb Classical Library, numbers 48, 81, 107, 173, 217.
  • On Buildings. Loeb Classical Library, number 343.

Other Books and Articles
on the same period and topics as Rosen's book, mostly published after Rosen wrote his book:

• Nicholas Wade, "Europe’s Plagues Came From China, Study Finds," The New York Times, 11 October 2010.
• Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. Lester K. Little, editor. Cambridge University Press, 2006. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Averil Cameron. Procopius and the Sixth Century. Routledge, 1996 (first published: London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1985). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gillian Clark. Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• J. A. S. Evans. The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power. London: Routledge, 2000 (first published: 1996). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Heather. The Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (first published: London: Macmillan, 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Heather. Empires and Barbarians. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (first published: London: Macmillan, 2009). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Heather. The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders. London: Macmillan, 2013. [Amazon.co.uk.]
• Anthony Kaldellis. Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Sarris. Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian. Cambridge University Press, 2009 (first published: 2006). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Sarris. Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700. Oxford University Press, 2011. [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Julia Smith. Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History, 500-1000. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (first published: 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (first published: 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Chris Wickham. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (first published: 2005). [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Chris Wickham. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000. New York: Viking Penguin, 2009. [Publisher, UK; Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]