These are books I’ve been reading in full rather than just referencing for papers etc. In other words, works that I found particularly important or influential for some reason or other. In the order that I’ve been reading:
The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century by Pierre Goubert
Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories by Madeleine Yue Dong
Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950 by Joseph Esherick
Shanghai: China’s Gateway to Modernity by Marie-Claire Bergère
The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou by Steven B. Miles
Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s by David Strand
Pacific War, 1931-1945 by Saburo Ienaga
The First World War Peace Settlements, 1919-1925 by Erik Goldstein
Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview by Jürgen Osterhammel
Ideology and narrative in modern Japanese literature by Fuminobu Murakami
