Russian/East European History (HST 447/547)

Book Review

 

 

Write a 4-5 page (typed and double-spaced) review of ONE of the books listed below.  Be sure to address the following:

 

-         Who is the author? (a historian? a political scientist? a journalist? etc.)

-         What subject is the author examining?

-         What is the author’s argument and how does he/she make the case? (Be sure to identify and evaluate the primary sources the author uses.)

-         Compare and contrast this reading with at least one other primary or secondary source from the syllabus that we have examined this term. (Please feel free to consult Professor Doellinger for help selecting an appropriate comparison.)

-         Describe how this reading contributes to your understanding of East European and/or Russian history.

 

This book review will be due on Monday, November 29, though you may submit the assignment before this due date.

 

NOTE: Many of these books will only be available through Summit/Orbis.  Please consult Professor Doellinger or the Library’ Information desk for directions on how to do this.

 

 

Approved Books:

 

John V.A. Fine, The Early Medieval Balkans (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983).

 

John V.A. Fine, The Late Medieval Balkans (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987).

 

Dimitri Obolensky, The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500-1453 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971).

 

Antal Bartha, Hungarian Society in the 9th and 10th  Centuries (Budapest, 1975).

 

John M. Klassen, The Nobility and the Making of the Hussite Revolution (Boulder: East European Quarterly, 1978).

 

Vera P. Mutafchieva, Agrarian Relations in the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1988).

 

Bariša Krekić, Dubrovnik in the 14th and 15th Centuries: A City between East and West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972).

 

Martyn C. Rady, Medieval Buda: A Study of Municipal Government and Jurisdiction in the Kingdom of Hungary (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1985).

 

John V.A. Fine, The Bosnian Church: A New Interpretation (Boulder: East European Quarterly, 1975).

 

George C. Soulis, The Serbs and Byzantium during the Reign of Stephen Dušan (1331-1355) and his Successors (Washington, D.C.: Dumberton Oaks Library, 1984).

 

Slavko P. Todorovich, The Chilandarians: Serbian Monks on the Great Mountain (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1989).

 

Joseph Held, Hunyadi, Legend and Reality (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1985).

 

Bertold Spuler, History of the Mongols: Based on Eastern and Western Accounts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972).

 

Thomas Allen Emmert, Serbian Golgotha: Kosovo, 1389 (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1990).

 

Paul Coles, The Ottoman Impact on Europe (London: Thames and Hudson, 1968).

 

Géza Perjés, The Fall of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary: Mohács 1526-Buda 1541 (Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 1989).

 

Astrik L. Gabriel, The Mediaevel Universities of Pécs and Pozsony (Notre Dame: Mediaeval Institute, 1969).

 

Szczepan K. Zimmer, The Beginning of Cyrillic Printing in Cracow, 1491 (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1983).

 

Daniel Stone, The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2001.

 

Branimir Anzulovic, Heavenly Serbia.

 

Eve Levin, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700 (Ithaca, 1989).

 

Russell Zyguta, Russian Minstrels: A History of the Skomorokhi (Oxford, 1978).

 

Daniel Kaiser, The Growth of Law in Medieval Russia (Princeton, 1980).

 

Janet Martin, Treasure in the Land of Darkness: The Fur Trade and Its Significance for Medieval Russia (London, 1986).

 

John Dunlop, The History of the Jewish Khazars (Princeton, 1954).

 

John Meyendorff, Byzantium and the Rise of Russia: A Study of Byzantino-Russio Relations in the Fourteenth Century, (Cambridge, 1981).

 

David Morgan, The Mongols (Oxford, 1986).

 

Stephen Rowell, Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire in East-Central Europe, 1293-1345 (Cambridge, 1994).

 

Paul Bushkovitch, The Merchants of Moscow, 1580-1650 (Cambridge, 1980).

 

Richard Hellie, The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1715 (Chicago, 1999).

 

Isolde Thyret, Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia (Dekalb, 2001).

 

Chester Dunning, Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty (University Park, 2001).

 

Maureen Perrie, Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars in the Time of Troubles (New York, 1995).

 

Nancy Kollman, By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (Ithaca, 1999).

 

Carol Stevens, Soldiers on the Steppe: Army Reform and Social Change in Early Modern Russia (Dekalb, 1995).

 

Georg B. Michels, At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Stanford, 1999).

 

Paul Bushkovitch, Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725 (Cambridge, 2001).

 

James Cracraft, The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture (Chicago, 1990).

 

E.J. Phillips, The Founding of Russia’s Navy: Peter the Great and the Azov Fleet, 1688-1714 (Westport, 1995).