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
Talbert, Richard J.A. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World for iPad (Princeton UP 2014) ISBN978-1-4008-4876-8; 102 interactive color maps from archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire.
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.
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)
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)
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
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).
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
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
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
Berger, Maurits. A brief history of Islam in Europe: thirteen centuries of creed, conflict and coexistence (Leiden UP, 2014).
Forlenza, Rosario. "New Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Catholicism." Contemporary European History 28.4 (2019): 581–595 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000146
Latourette, Kenneth Scott.Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (5 vol. 1958–69) vol 1, 2, and 4 for detailed country-by-country coverage
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2011)
Vital, David. A people apart. A political history of the Jews in Europe 1789-1939 (Oxford UP, 1999) online
Dupuy, R. Ernest, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present (1993)
Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela. "The Great War as a Global War: Imperial Conflict and the Reconfiguration of World Order, 1911–1923." Diplomatic History 38.4 (2014): 786–800. online
Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela, eds. Empires at War: 1911–1923 (2014), 12 very wide-ranging essays by scholars. excerpt
Goldsworthy, Adrian, and John Keegan. Roman Warfare (2000)
Gutman, Israel. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (4 vol. 1990)
Horne, John, ed. A Companion to World War I (2012)
Sharman, Jason C. "Myths of military revolution: European expansion and Eurocentrism." European Journal of International Relations 24.3 (2018): 491-513 online
Stevenson, David. Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy (2004) major reinterpretation, 560pp
Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2004): a major scholarly synthesis. Thorough coverage of 1914–16; 1245pp
Weinberg, Gerhard L. (2005). A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (2nd ed.).; comprehensive overview with emphasis on diplomacy
Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I (2nd ed 2005), topical essays;
Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost (2nd ed 2020). The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-52161-633-1
Winter, Jay. Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century. (Yale University Press, 2006)
Winter, Jay, ed. (2014). The Cambridge History of the First World War (2 vol. Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Zeiler, Thomas W. and Daniel M. DuBois, eds. A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2013), 1030 pp; comprehensive overview by scholars
Women and gender
Anderson, Bonnie S. and Judith P. Zinsser. A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present (2nd ed 2000)
Bridenthal, Renate, et al. eds. Becoming Visible: Women in European History (3rd ed. 1997), 608 pp; essays by scholars
Frey, Linda, Marsha Frey, Joanne Schneider. Women in Western European History: A Select Chronological, Geographical, and Topical Bibliography (1982)
Hufton, Olwen. The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500–1800 (1996)
Offen, Karen (2010). "Surveying European Women's History since the Millenium: A Comparative Review". Journal of Women's History. 22: 154–177. doi:10.1353/jowh.0.0131. S2CID145632281.
Pal, Carol. "Women and Institutions in Early Modern Europe: Making Space for Female Scholarship." in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy (Routledge, 2023) pp. 13–28.
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).
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).