Bibliography of European history

This is a bibliography of European history focused on some of the main books in English.

Surveys Blum, Jerome et al. The European World (2 vol. 2nd ed. 1970) university textbook; online Davies, Norman. Europe: A History (1998), advanced university textbook Gay, Peter and R.K. Webb Modern Europe: To 1815 (1973) online, university textbook Gay, Peter and R.K. Webb Modern Europe: Since 1815 (1973), university textbook Gooch, Brison D. ed. Interpreting European history. 1: From the renaissance to Napoleon (1967) online and Interpreting European history 2: from Metternich to Present (1967). online; readings by scholars McKay, John P. et al. A History of Western Society (13th ed.; 2 vol 2020) 1300 pp; university textbook Moncure, James A. ed. Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450–Present (4 vol 1992); 2140 pp; historiographical guide to 200 major political and military leaders Roberts, J.M. The Penguin History of Europe (1998), survey; excerpt Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present (2013), survey, with emphasis on Germany Stearns, Peter, ed. The Encyclopedia of World History (2001); comprehensive global coverage

Geography and atlases Black, Jeremy. A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps (2020) Cambridge Modern History Atlas (1912) online 141 maps Catchpole, Brian. Map History of the Modern World (1982) Darby, H. C., and H. Fullard, eds. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 14: Atlas (1970) East, W. Gordon. An Historical Geography of Europe (4th ed. 1950) Haywood, John. Atlas of world history (1997) online Horrabin, J.F. An Atlas History of the Second Great War (9 vol 1941–45) 7 vol online Kinder, Hermann and Werner Hilgemann. Anchor Atlas of World History (2 vol. 1978); advanced analytical maps, mostly of Europe O'Brian, Patrick K. Atlas of World History (2007) Online free

Rand McNally Atlas of World History (1983), maps #76–81. Published in Britain as the Hamlyn Historical Atlas online Robertson, Charles Grant. An historical atlas of modern Europe from 1789 to 1922 with an historical and explanatory text (1922) online Schenk, Frithjof Benjamin, Mental Maps: The Cognitive Mapping of the Continent as an Object of Research of European History, EGO – European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2013, retrieved: 4 March 2020 Talbert, Richard J.A. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World for iPad (Princeton UP 2014) ; 102 interactive color maps from archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire. Historical Atlas Wikipedia maps; no copyright Atlas of Germany Wikipedia maps; no copyright

Major nations

Carr, Raymond, ed. Spain: A history (2000) Clark, Christopher M. Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (2006) Davies, Norman. The Isles: A History (2001), Britain and Ireland

Fraser, Rebecca. The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History (2006) Holborn, Hajo. vol 1: A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation; vol 2: A History of Modern Germany: 1648-1840; vol 3: A history of modern Germany: 1840–1945 (1959). a standard scholarly survey. Kamen, Henry. A concise history of Spain (1973)

Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford illustrated history of medieval Europe (2001). Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford illustrated history of Italy (1997) Jones, Colin. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (1999) Kitchen, Martin The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany (1996). Morgan, Kenneth O., ed. The Oxford illustrated history of Britain (1984) New Oxford History of England in 11 volumes (1989–2010) Oxford History of England in 15 volumes (1936–1965) Pelican History of England (1955–1965)

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia (2 vol. 2010) Sagarra, Eda. A social history of Germany (2003) Tombs, Robert, The English and their History (2014) advanced history; online review

Classical Boardman, John, et al. eds. The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (2nd ed. 2002) 520 pp Boardman, John, et al. eds. The Oxford History of the Roman World (2001) Cartledge, Paul. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (2002)

Late Roman Heather, Peter. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe (Oxford University Press; 2010); 734 pages; Examines the migrations, trade, and other phenomena that shaped a recognizable entity of Europe in the first millennium. Jones, A.H.M. The Later Roman Empire, 284–602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey (2 Vol. 1964)

Mitchell, Stephen. A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284–641: The Transformation of the Ancient World (2006)

Medieval Davis, R.H.C. A History of Medieval Europe (2nd ed. 2000) Ferguson, Wallace K. Europe in Transition, 1300–1520 (1962) Hanawalt, Barbara. The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History (1999) Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (2001) Koenigsberger, H.G. Medieval Europe 400–1500 (1987) Riddle, John M. A history of the Middle Ages, 300–1500 (2008)

Early modern

Cameron, Euan. Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (2001) Friedrich, Carl J. The Age of the Baroque, 1610-1660 (1962); Despite the title, this is a wide-ranging Social, cultural, political and diplomatic history of Europe; 14-day borrowing copy Hesmyr, Atle. Scandinavia in the Early Modern Era; From Peasant Revolts and Witch Hunts to Constitution Drafting Yeomen (2014)

Rice, Eugene F. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (2nd ed. 1994) 240 pp Merriman, John. A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present (3rd ed. 2010, 2 vol), 1412 pp online Scott, Hamish, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350–1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place (2015).

Stoye, John. Europe Unfolding, 1648-1688 (2nd ed. 2000). Te Brake, Wayne. Shaping history: Ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 (U of California Press, 2023).

Wiesner, Merry E. Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (3rd ed. 2022)

19th century

Anderson, M.S. The Ascendancy of Europe: 1815-1914 (3rd ed. 2003) Berger, Stefan, ed. A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789–1914 (2006), 545pp; emphasis on historiography of 32 topics; online Blanning, T.C.W. ed. The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789–1914 (Short Oxford History of Europe) (2000) 320 pp Brinton, Crane. A Decade of Revolution, 1789–1799 (1934) online in Langer series on history of Europe. Bruun, Geoffrey. Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814 (1938) online. Cameron, Rondo. France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800–1914: Conquests of Peace and Seeds of War (1961), wide-ranging economic and business history. online Evans, Richard J. The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 (2016), 934 pp; scholarly survey Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800–1914 (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) (3rd ed. 2003) 544 p Gooch, Brison D. Europe in the nineteenth century; a history (1970) online

Kertesz, G.A. ed Documents in the Political History of the European Continent 1815-1939 (1968), 507 pp; several hundred short documents; primary sources Mason, David S. A Concise History of Modern Europe: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity (2011), since 1700 Merriman, John, and J.M. Winter, eds. Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire (5 vol. 2006) Ramm, Agatha. Europe in the Nineteenth Century 1789–1905 (1984). 1950 edition online Richardson, Hubert N.B. A Dictionary of Napoleon and His Times (1921) online free 489 pp Steinberg, Jonathan. Bismarck: A Life (2011) Salmi, Hannu. 19th Century Europe: A Cultural History (2008). Taylor, A.J.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918 (1954) online free; Advanced diplomatic history online Thomson, David. Europe Since Napoleon (1923) 524 pp online

Since 1900 Brose, Eric Dorn. A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (2004) 548 pp Brown, Archie. The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009), global Buchanan, Tom. Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present (Blackwell History of Europe) (2012) Cook, Bernard A. Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia (2 vol; 2001), 1465 pp Davies, Norman. Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory (2008) Dear, I.C.B. and M.R.D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Companion to World War II (2006) Frank, Matthew. Making Minorities History: Population Transfer in Twentieth-Century Europe (Oxford UP, 2017). 464 pp. online review Grenville, J.A.S. A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (1994). online free Hallock, Stephanie A. The World in the 20th Century: A Thematic Approach (2012)

Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2006) Martel, Gordon, ed. A Companion to Europe, 1900-1950 (2011) 32 essays by scholars; emphasis on historiography Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (2000) 512 pp Merriman, John, and Jay Winter, eds. Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age War and Reconstruction (5 vol. 2006)

Paxton, Robert O., and Julie Hessler. Europe in the twentieth century (5th edition 2011. Pollard, Sidney, ed. Wealth and Poverty: an Economic History of the 20th Century (1990), 260 pp; global perspective online free Sontag, Raymond James. A broken world, 1919–1939 (1972), wide-ranging history of interwar Europe; online free to borrow Stone, Dan, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (2015). Ther, Philipp. Europe since 1989: A History (Princeton UP, 2016) excerpt, 440 pp Toynbee, Arnold, ed. Survey Of International Affairs: Hitler's Europe 1939–1946 (1954) online Wasserstein, Bernard. Barbarism and civilization: A history of Europe in our time (2007), since 1914 online , on World War II

Agriculture and economy

Berend, Iván T. An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe (2013)

Gras, Norman. A history of agriculture in Europe and America (1925). Kander, Astrid, et al. Power to the People: Energy in Europe Over the Last Five Centuries (Princeton UP, 2013) Milward, Alan S. and S.B. Saul. The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe: 1850–1914 (1977) online Murray, Jacqueline. The First European Agriculture (1970) Pollard, Sidney, ed. Wealth and Poverty: an Economic History of the 20th Century (1990), 260 pp; global perspective online free Pounds, N.J.G. An Economic History of Medieval Europe (1994) Slicher van Bath, B.H. The agrarian history of Western Europe, AD 500–1850 (1966) Thorp, William Long. Business Annals: United States, England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Australia, India, Japan, China (1926) capsule summary of conditions in each country for each quarter-year 1790–1925 online

Diplomacy Albrecht-Carrié, René. A Diplomatic History of Europe Since the Congress of Vienna (1958), 736pp; a basic introduction, 1815–1955 online Black, Jeremy. A History of Diplomacy (2011) Black, Jeremy. European International Relations 1648–1815 (2002)} Kertesz, G.A. ed Documents in the Political History of the European Continent 1815-1939 (1968), 507 pp; several hundred short documents Langer, William. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973), very detailed outline Macmillan, Margaret. The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (2013) cover 1890s to 1914 Mowat, R.B. History of European Diplomacy, 1451–1789 (1928) 324 pages Petrie, Charles. Earlier diplomatic history, 1492–1713 (1949), covers all of Europe; online Petrie, Charles. Diplomatic History, 1713–1933 (1946), broad summary online Schroeder, Paul. The Transformation of European Politics 1763–1848 (1994) online; advanced diplomatic history Sontag, Raymond James. European Diplomatic History 1871–1932 (1933) online Steiner, Zara. The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919–1933 (2007) Steiner, Zara. The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933–1939 (2011) Taylor, A.J.P The struggle for mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (1954) online