Alumni Travel Reading Lists 2020: Great Journey Through Europe

Revised and completely updated edition of University of Pennsylvania Professor of History, Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. (Also available in print from Cambridge University Press)

Church presents a comprehensive and engaging account of Switzerland’s historical and cultural development from the Middle Ages to the present. The book traces major political, economic, religious, and social events in Switzerland’s history, concluding with contemporary issues that the country faces.

Provides an informative guide to the twists and turns of the story of the German lands and peoples from the early middle ages to the present day. Fulbrook explores the interrelationships between social, political and cultural factors in the light of scholarly controversies.

Merriman reflects on his decades of research and on his life, lived increasingly in France, where he set himself the goal of doing archival research in every single region of the country. Merriman offers reflections on his life in history that will be of interest to a broad audience. (Also available in printt from the Unviersity of Nebraska Press)

Noted historian Darnton, captures the comedy and occasional risk of Jean-François Favarger's travels in the service of books. In the process, he offers an engaging narrative of book culture--a perfect way to enrich your travel.

Schwartz offers a close reading of individual texts giving attention to cultural and canonical context. Also consider Schwartz's companion work, Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900...Proust's Swann's Way .... to Ferrante's Neapolitan Tetrology. Both books are also available in print from Wiley Blackwell.

The essays in this work focuse on the debates that have shaped the politics and culture of the post-Soviet united German. They offer the first comprehensive account of important developments in German literary fiction. (Also available in print from Cambridge University Press)

Innocenti examines the ways in which museums, libraries and public cultural institutions respond to the effects of globalization, mobility and migration across Europe.

In this collection of essys, authors provide an overview of the history of jazz in Europe from its inception to the present day.

Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most significant developments of the twentieth century, including mass media, technological advances, fascism, and war on an unprecedented scale.

The urban soundscape is studied from a range of different interdisciplinary perspectives. The individual contributions explore themes related to sound and space within the urban context and between social identity and civic authorities.

Dellmann investigatesimagery in popular visual media ranging from magazines to tourist brochures, from anthropological treatises to advertising trade cards, stereoscopic photographs, picture postcards, magic lantern slide sets and films of early cinema.

This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema. The main figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith, and from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill, had a significant relationship with cinema.

These essays explore how the contemporary concern with space in France has taken shape across a range of media, from recent cinema, documentary filmmaking and photographic projects.

DeYoung's collection of essays xplore the significance of historical dress over this period of upheaval. Authors investigate the politics of dress, its inspirations and the reactions it provoked, as well as the many meanings of fashion in European art.

This work provides insight on the equality of women architects in comparison with their male counterparts. The book looks at nations in Eastern Europe under Socialism where, between 1945 and 1989, a contrasting vision of gender relations existed in response to the need for engineers and architects.

This collection includes essays by Penn professors Warren Breckman (History) and Catriona Macleod (German). It examines the work of eaturing the work of 120 artists, including Casper David Friedrich, Ludwig Emil Grimm, Joseph Anton Koch, Philipp Otto Runge, and Johann Gottfried Schadow, including previously unpublished artworks from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Their expectations for heroism and glory quickly disintegrate as they grapple to find any meaning at all in their war's mindless violence, destruction, and death.

French author Slimani writes a novel of modern life: When Myriam decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. In a common trope, they find a nanny, but get more than they bargain for.

A young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools.

This study of culinary culture and its history provides an insight into social, political and economic changes in society through the food culture of 40 European countries.

Through this book, explore with Julia Child her personal discovery of French cooking and the French way of life. Photographs by Paul child

This work reviews cuisine and food culture 1250-1650, providing detailed instructions so that the reader can replicate period food--with guidance on equipment, cooking methods, finding ingredients, and reading period recipes.