Bibliography and Sources Consulted

Below you will find a list, organized by theme, of the sources I consulted during the research and writing phases of this project.

Books From International History since 1898 Graduate Seminar

Below are the books that we read as a class during the course of our graduate seminar, and throughout the website I will refer to them by author – example: “Tooze says” or “Bayly argues”.

Bayly, C.A. The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914 ; Global Connections and Comparisons. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2012.

Brown, Jonathan C. Cuba’s Revolutionary World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Clark, Christopher M. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2014.

Eichengreen, Barry. Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2015.

Morgan, Michael Cotey. The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Ogle, Vanessa. The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Roberts, Mary Louise. What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Suri, Jeremi. Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2009.

Tooze, Adam. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. New York, NY: Viking, 2018.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. World War II: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Westad, Odd Arne. The Cold War: A World History. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2017.

Zweig, Stefan. The World of Yesterday. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.



Sources for Overview of Detroit History page:

“A Brief History of Michigan.” Michigan State Legislature. Accessed May 03, 2019. https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/publications/manual/2001-2002/2001-mm-0003-0026-History.pdf.

“Andrew Jackson’s Bank War – Pet Banks.” American Historama. January 07, 2014. Accessed May 12, 2019. http://www.american-historama.org/1829-1841-jacksonian-era/bank-war.htm.

Dougherty, Heather, Ryan Huddleston, and Neena Yoyakey. “A Brief 20th Century History of Detroit.” University of Michigan. Accessed May 05, 2019. http://www.umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects06/neerhdo/postwar.html.

Farley, Ren. “Statuary and Memorial Commemorating Detroit’s Role in the Underground Railroad.” Detroit: The History and Future of the Motor City. November 2011. Accessed May 07, 2019. http://detroit1701.org/UndergroundRailroad.htm.

Martelle, Scott. Detroit: A Biography. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2014.

“Michigan at 200.” Michigan State University – History. January 2005. Accessed May 12, 2019. https://history.msu.edu/hst320/files/2010/07/Michigan-at-200.pdf.

“French Detroit Timeline (1700-1760).” Detroit Historical Society. Accessed May 06, 2019. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/timeline-detroit/french-detroit-1700-1760.

“Native American History, Art and Culture.” Pure Michigan. February 13, 2017. Accessed May 05, 2019. https://www.michigan.org/news/native-american-history,-art-and-culture.

“Panic of 1837.” Ohio History Central. Accessed May 12, 2019. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Panic_of_1837.



Sources for Time and Transportation Revolutions here

“A Brief History of Michigan.” Michigan State Legislature. Accessed May 03, 2019. https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/publications/manual/2001-2002/2001-mm-0003-0026-History.pdf.

Farley, Doug. “Erie Canal Discovery: Steam Power on the Canal.” Lockport Union-Sun & Journal. November 10, 2007. Accessed May 08, 2019. https://www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/erie-canal-discovery-steam-power-on-the-canal/article_6a671580-69c4-5295-a436-db9e4481a21c.html.

Fuller, George Newman. “Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan. A Study of the Settlement of the Lower Peninsula during the Territorial Period, 1805-1837.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review4, no. 3 (1917): 63-132. doi:10.2307/1888615.

“History of Steam-Generating Boilers.” Manley’s Boiler. June 08, 2017. Accessed May 08, 2019. http://www.manleysboilerinc.com/the-history-of-steam-power-in-america/.

“The Bessemer Process and Modern Steelmaking.” Sabel Steel. Accessed May 07, 2019. http://www.sabelsteel.com/news/the-bessemer-process-and-modern-steelmaking/.

Martelle, Scott. Detroit: A Biography. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2014.

Ulvog, James. “Time to Cross the Atlantic – 500 Year History.” Outrun Change. November 27, 2015. Accessed May 10, 2019. https://outrunchange.com/2015/11/27/time-to-cross-the-atlantic-500-year-history/.

Paddar, Ankur. “Transportation Revolution.” The Industrial Revolution. Accessed May 05, 2019. https://firstindustrialrevolution.weebly.com/transportation-revolution.html.