1 - Conceptual framework; Historical sociology vs. social history; the historical geography of Central-Europe in the 19^th century

Burawoy, Michael. "Two Methods in Search of Science: Skocpol versus Trotsky." Theory and Society 18, no. 6 (1989): 759-805.

Kiser, Edgar, and Michael Hechter. "The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology." American Journal of Sociology 97, no. 1 (1991): 1-30.

Skocpol, Theda. "Social History and Historical Sociology: Contrasts and Complementarities." Social Science History 11, no. 1 (April 1, 1987): 17-30.

2 - Modernization, economic backwardness and belated embourgeoisement in Central Europe

"Historians and the Question of ‘Modernity.’" American Historical Review 116, no. 3 (June 2011): 631-37.

Eisenstadt, S. N. "Multiple Modernities." Daedalus 129, no. 1 (2000): 1-29.

Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962.

Janos, Andrew C. East Central Europe in the Modern World: The Politics of the Borderlands from Pre- to Postcommunism. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000.

3 - Industrialization and urbanization (2 sessions)

Berend, Ivan. History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Brenner, Robert. "Economic Backwardness in Eastern Europe in Light of Developments in the West." In The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages until the Early Twentieth Century, edited by Daniel Chirot, 15-52. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Good, David F. The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Turnock, David. The Economy of East Central Europe 1815-1989: Stages of Transformation in a Peripheral Region. 1st ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.

4 - Embourgeoisement and the middle-class question

Kocka, Jürgen, and Allan Mitchell, eds. Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Oxford: Berg, 1993.

5 - The dynamics of educational expansion (2 sessions)

Müller, Detlef K. "The Process of Systematisation: The Case of German Secondary Education." In The Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction, 1870-1920, 15-52. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Cohen, Gary B. Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918. West Lafayette, Ind: Purdue University Press, 1996.

Ringer, Fritz K. Education and Society in Modern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.

Jarausch, Konrad. , ed. The Transformation of Higher Learning, 1860-1930: Expansion, Diversification, Social Opening, and Professionalization in England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

6 - Professionalization

Bailes, Kendall E. "Reflections on Russian Professions." In Russia’s Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History, edited by Harley D. Balzer, 39-54. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Gispen, Kees. "German Engineers and American Social Theory: Historical Perspectives on Professionalization." Comparative Studies in Society and History 30, no. 3 (July 1, 1988): 550-74.

Kovács, M. Mária. Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust. Washington, D.C.; New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.

McClelland, Charles E. The German Experience of Professionalization: Modern Learned Professions and Their Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

7 - Jewry: agents of modernization (2 sessions)

Beller, Steven. Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Karády, Viktor. "Jewish Over-Schooling in Hungary. Its Sociological Dimensions." In Bildungswesen Und Sozialstruktur in Mitteleuropa Im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Viktor Karády and Wolfgang Mitter, 209-46. Studien Und Dokumentationen Zur Vergleichenden Bildungsforschung, Bd. 42. Köln: Böhlau, 1990.

Karády, Viktor. The Jews of Europe in the Modern Era: A Socio-Historicaloutline. Budapest: CEU Press, 2004.

Muller, Jerry Z. Capitalism and the Jews. Princeton University Press, 2010.

8 - Nations, empire, and nationalism at the challenges of modernization (2 sessions)

Bibó, István. "The Distress of East European Small States." In Democracy, Revolution, Self-Determination: Selected Writings, edited by Károly Nagy, translated by András Boros-Kazai. Boulder, Co.: Social Science Monographs, 1991.

Cohen, Gary B. The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Judson, Pieter M. Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.