• Peter Burke: History and Social Theory
• Paula Saukko: Doing Research in Cultural Studies. An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches

Suggestions for literature:

• Peter Burke: Eyewitnessing. The Uses of Images in Historical Writing
• Larry J. Griffin and Marcel van der Linden (eds.): New Methods for Social History
• Pat Hudson: History by Numbers. Introduction to Quantitative Techniques
• Paula Saukko: Doing Research in Cultural Studies. An Introduction to Classival and New Methodological Approaches
• Quentin Skinner: Visions of Politics. Regarding Method vol. 1

• Risto Alapuro: State and Revolution in Finland
• C. A. Bayly: The Birth of the Modern World 1780–1914. Global Connections and comparisons
• Irma Sulkunen: Temperance as a civic religion
• David Kirby: The Baltic World 1772-1992

• J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill: The Human Web. A Bird's-Eye View of World History
• Martin van Creveld: The Rise and Decline of the State
• Alan Milward: The European Rescue of the Nation-State
• Theda Skocpol: States and Social Revolutions. A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
• Charles Tilly: Contention & Democracy in Europe 1650-2000

• Keijo Korhonen: Autonomous Finland in the Political Thought of Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Juhani Paasivirta: Finland and Europe 1808–1914
• Tuomo Polvinen: Imperial Borderland
• Robert Schweizer: The Rise and Fall of Russo-Finnish Consensus
• Charles Tilly: European Revolutions, 1492-1992 (Making of Europe Series)

• David Held: Democracy and the Global Order. From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
• Sally Marks: The Ebbing of European Ascendancy. An International History of the World 1914-1945
• A. Best, J. M. Hanhimäki, J. A. Maiolo & K. E. Schulze : International History of the Twentieth Century

• Paul W. Schroeder et al: Systems, Stability and Statecraft. Essays on the International History of Modern Europe
• Michael J. Hogan & Thomas G. Paterson: Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations (2. ed.)
• John Lewis Gaddis : We Now Know. Rethinking Cold War History
• Jussi Hanhimäki : Scandinavia and the United States. An Insecure Friendship

• Richard F. Hamilton & Holger Herwig (eds.): The Origins of World War I
• Robert W. D. Boyce & Joseph A. Maiolo (eds.): The Origins of the World War Two: The Debate Continues.
• Tuomo Polvinen: Between east and west. Finland in international politics 1944–1947
• Odd Arne Westad: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times: The Global Cold War

• Terence Ball and Richard Bellamy (eds.): The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought
• John Schwarzmantel: The Age of Ideology. Political Ideologies from the American Revolution to Postmodern Times
• Joan W. Scott: Gender and the Politics of History (rev.ed.)

• Rogers Brubaker: Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
• Dario Castiglione and Ian Hampsher-Monkin (eds.): The History of Political Thought in National Context
• Mark Mazower: Dark Continent. Europe’s Twentieth Century
• Edward W. Said: Orientalism

• Donald Sassoon: One Hundred Years of Socialism
• Stanley G. Payne: A History of Fascism 1914–1945
• Pierre Manent: An Intellectual History of Liberalism
• Pekka Suvanto: Conservatism from the French Revolution to the 1990s

• Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (rev.ed.)
• Vijay Prashad: The Darker Nations. A People’s History of the Third World
• Anthony D. Smith: Nationalism and Modernism
• Nira Yuval-Davis: Gender and Nation

• Niels Finn Christiansen (ed.): The Nordic Model. A Historical Reappraisal
• Theda Skocpol and Dietrich Ruesschemeyer (eds.): States, Social Knowledge and the Origins of Modern Social Policies
• Peter A. Swenson: Capitalists against Markets. The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the Unites States and Sweden
• Pat Thane: Foundations of the Welfare State

• John Torpey (ed.): Politics and the Past. On repairing Historical Injusteces
• Joyce Appleby et al.: Telling the Thruth about History
• Marc Ferro: The Use and Abuse of History
• Robert Gildea: The Past in French History

• Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson (eds.): Political innovations and conceptual change
• Albert O. Hirschman: The Rhetorics of Reaction
• Reinhart Koselleck: Futures past. On the semantics of historical time
• Melvin Richter: The History of Political and Social Concepts. A Critical Introduction

Choose four books:

• P. J. Cain & A. G. Hopkins: British Imperialism 1688-2000
• Edward W. Said: Culture and Imperialism.
• David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, Jonathan Perraton: Global Transformations. Politics, Economics and Culture
• Lydia He Liu: The Clash of Empires. The Invention of China in Modern World Making
• Desmond Dinan: Europe Recast. A History of European Union

Choose four books:

• Olav Njolstad (toim.): The Last Decade of the Cold War. From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation
• Odd Arne Westad (ed.): Reviewing the Cold War. Approaches, Interpretations, Theory
• Marc Trachtenberg: A Constructed Peace. The Making of the European Settlement 1945-1963
• Jeremi Suri: Power and Protest. Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente
• Antohi Sorin – Vladimir Tismaneanu (eds): Between Past and Future. The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermath
• Juhana Aunesluoma: Britain, Sweden and the Cold War. Understanding Neutrality

Choose four books:

• Sara Ahmed: Strange Encounters. Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
• Barbara Evans Clements: Bolshevik Women
• Cynthia Cockburn: The Space Between Us. Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict
• Robert D. Dean: Imperial Brotherhood. Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
• Karen Hagemann & Stefanie Schuler-Springorum: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany
• Helga Maria Hernes: Welfare State and Woman Power
• Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon & Janice Monk (eds.): Women of the European Union. The Politics of Work and Daily Life

• Kenwood, A.G. and A.G. Lougheed: Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2000: An introductory text.
• Easterlin, Richard: The Growth Triumphant. The 21st century in Historical Perspective (1998).
• Jones, Eric: The European miracle: environments, economies and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia (2003).

• McNeill, William: Plagues and Peoples.
• Crosby, Alfred W.: Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900–1900.
• Opie, J.: Nature’s Nation. An Environmental History of the United States.

• Wiesner-Hanks M E: Gender in History.
• Simonton, Deborah: A History of European Women’s Work. 1700 to the Present.
• Tosh, John: Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-century Britain.
• Zemon-Davis, Natalie: Women on the margins: three seventeenth-century lives.

• Hobsbawm, Eric: Workers. Worlds of labour.
• Donkin, Richard: Blood, sweat and tears: the evolution of work.
• Whiteside, Noel: Bad times: unemployment in British social and political history.
• Scholliers, Peter & Swarz, Leonard (eds): Experiencing Wages. Social and Cultural Aspcredits of Wage Forms in Europe Since 1500.

• Levi, Giovanni: Inheriting Power.
• Thompson, E.P.: Customs in Common.
• Spierenburg, Pieter: The Broken Spell.
• Ginzburg, Carlo: The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.

• Lovell, Stephen (ed.): Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe.
• Lynch, Katherine: Individuals, Families and communities in Europe, 1200-1800. The Urban foundations of Western Society.
• Livi-Bacci, Massimo: A Concise History of World Population. Seccombe, Wally: A Millenium of Family Change.

• McKendrick, Neil, John Brewer and J. H. Plumb: The Birth of a Consumer Society. The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England.
• Ross, Kristin: Fast Cars, Clean Bodies. Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
• Roche, Daniel : A History of Everyday Things. The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800
• Cross, Gary: An All-Consuming Century. Why Commercialism Won in Modern America.

• Cassis, Youssef: Big Business. The European Experience in the Twentieth Century.
• Wilson, John F. and Andrew Thomson: Making of Modern Management. British Management in Historical Perspective.
• Nelson, Daniel: Managers and Workers. Origins of the Twentieth Century Factory System in the United States. 1880-1920.

• Aldcroft, Derek and Sutcliffe, Anthony: Europe in the International Economy 1500 to 2000.
• Eichengreen, Barry. The European Economy since 1945. Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. 2007.
• Fellman, S., Iversen M, Sjögren, H.and Thue, L.(eds.), Creating Nordic Capitalism – The Development of a Competitive Periphery, 2008 (chapters 1,2,5,8,11,14)

• Cassis, Youssef: Big Business. The European Experience in the Twentieth Century.
• Wilson, John F. and Andrew Thomson: Making of Modern Management. British Management in Historical Perspective.
• Nelson, Daniel: Managers and Workers. Origins of the Twentieth Century Factory System in the United States. 1880-1920.

• Freeman, C. and F. Louca: As Times Goes Bye.
• Misa, Thomas J.: Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
• Cooper, Gail: Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960.

• McKeown, Niall: The Invention of Ancient Slavery
• Parsons, Peter: City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Papyri Beneath the Egyptian Sand Reveal a Long-Lost World.
• Reynolds, Susan: Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpretated

• Roesdahl, Else, Sue Margeson and Kirsten Williams: The Vikings.
• Lindqvist, Herman: A History of Sweden: From Ice Age to Our Age.
• Helle, Knut, Torkel Jansson and E. I. Kouri (eds.): The Cambridge history of Scandinavia. Vol. 1 : Prehistory to 1520.