12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728Reading List on Civil War and Political ViolencePaul StanilandUniversity of ChicagoNovember 2019: v1.0It’s become impossibleto survey the field in my Civil War seminar. I’m providing a list of readings that I think could be helpful in advancing students’ knowledge of the full scope of the field, grouped in very loose general categories. This is just a starting point, and not an effort to define a clear “canon” or to exclude important work: apologies in advance if your research, or favored style of work,is notadequatelyrepresented. I hope it’s useful, and I’ll try to sporadically update it, though the formatting errors will remain.For criminal conflict, see my colleague Ben Lessing’s syllabi.“Classics”Paige, Jeffery M. Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World. New York: Free Press, 1975.Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: N.L.B, 1974.Foucault, Michel. 1995. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. 2nd edition. New York: Vintage Books.Guha, Ranajit. Elementary aspects of peasant insurgency in colonial India. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999[1983].Mann, Michael. 1986. The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760. Cambridge University Press.Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.———. “What Makes Peasants Revolutionary?” Comparative Politics14, no. 3 (April 1, 1982): 351–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/421958.Leites, Nathan Constantin, and Charles Wolf. Rebellion and Authority: An Analytic Essay on Insurgent Conflicts. Chicago: Markham Pub. Co, 1970.Wolf, Eric R. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.Trinquier, Roger. Modern Warfare: A French View of Counterinsurgency. Westport, Conn: Praeger Security International, 2006.Selznick, Philip. The Organizational Weapon: A Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics. 1st ed. Rand Series. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952.Popkin, Samuel L. The Rational Peasant: The Political Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press, 1979.Scott, James. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.Scott, James C. “Revolution in the Revolution: Peasants and Commissars.” Theory and Society7, no. 1/2 (March 1979): 97–134.Scott, James C. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.Giap, Vo Nguyen. 1970. Military Art of People’s War. New York usw.: Monthly Review Press.Horowitz, Donald L. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.Weiner, Myron. Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India. Princeton N.J.: