Bibliography of European history

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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
  • Pounds, Norman J. G. (1990). An Historical Geography of Europe. .
  • 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

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

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

19th century

Since 1900

Agriculture and economy

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

Empires and interactions

  • Bayly, C.A. ed. Atlas of the British Empire (1989). survey by scholars; heavily illustrated
  • Brendon, Piers. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 (2008), wide-ranging survey
  • Cotterell, Arthur. Western Power in Asia: Its Slow Rise and Swift Fall, 1415 – 1999 (2009) popular history; excerpt
  • D'agostino, Anthony. The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars (2012)
  • Darwin, John. After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000 (2008).
  • James, Lawrence. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (1997)
  • Poddar, Prem, and Lars Jensen, eds., A historical companion to postcolonial literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires (Edinburgh UP, 2008), excerpt also entire text online
  • Tolan, John; Laurens, Henry; Veinstein, Gilles; Esposito, John L. (2012). Europe and the Islamic World. .

Ideas and science

  • Heilbron, John L., ed. The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (2003)
  • Outhwaite, William, and Tom Bottomore, eds. The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought (Blackwell, 1992)
  • Wiener, Philip P. ed. Dictionary of the History of Ideas (5 vol 1973)

Religion

Social

Warfare

Women and gender

Historiography

  • Anderson, Benjamin, and Mirela Ivanova, eds. Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography (Penn State Press, 2023).
  • Antonelli, Roberto. Ideas of Europe: Time, Space, and Tradition (Taylor & Francis, 2023).
  • Bavaj, Riccardo: "The West": A Conceptual Exploration ,
    Institute of European History
    , 2011,
  • Berger, Stefan. “The Past and Present of European Historiography: Between Marginalization and Functionalization?” in Eurocentrism in European History and Memory, edited by Marjet Brolsma et al., (Amsterdam UP, 2019), pp. 25–42. online
  • Berghahn, Volker, and Simone Lässig, eds. Biography between structure and agency: Central European lives in international historiography (Berghahn Books, 2022).
  • Black, Jeremy M. The Holocaust: History and Memory (2nd ed. 2024)
  • Fleming, Katherine E. "Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan historiography." American Historical Review 105.4 (2000): 1218–1233. online
  • Geraldo, Joseph, and Michael Etnan. "Eurocentric Historiography: An Analysis of International Politics in the 21st Century and Its Effect on Changes in Historiography of Countries in Europe." International Journal of Science and Society 5.1 (2023): 1–12. online
  • Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard, and Jürgen Kocka, eds. Comparative and transnational history: Central European approaches and new perspectives (Berghahn Books, 2022).
  • Hroch, Miroslav. Comparative studies in modern European history: nation, nationalism, social change (Taylor & Francis, 2023) online.
  • Iggers, George. New Directions in European Historiography (Wesleyan University Press, 1975)
  • Mazower, Mark. "Changing Trends in the Historiography of Postwar Europe, East and West." International Labor and Working-Class History 58 (2000): 275–282. online
  • Mishkova, Diana, and Balázs Trencsény, eds. European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (2017) online
  • Porciana, Haria, and Lutz Raphael, eds. Atlas of European Historiography: The Making of a Profession 1800-2005 ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) uses 80 maps to show how historians studied Europe.
  • Pincince, John. "Jerry Bentley World History, and the Decline of the 'West'" Journal of World History 25#4 (2014), pp. 631–43, online.
  • Steinmetz, Willibald, Michael Freeden, and Javier Fernández-Sebastián, eds. Conceptual history in the European space (Berghahn Books, 2022).

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