This select bibliography, a work in progress, aims to provide students with a starting point for further reading and research. Students can use these books not only to learn a little bit about their topic, but also to identify other books that are possibly useful.

General

• Hunt, Lynn et. al. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.
• This title experiences frequent new editions, but the older ones are still good. There is also a concise edition.

Periods

• ANCIENT HISTORY

• MIDDLE AGES
• Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford History of Medieval Europe. New York: Oxford UP, 1988

• EARLY MODERN ERA

• MODERN ERA

• Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 New York: Vintage, 1989.
• ———. Age of Empire, 1875-1914. New York: Vintage, 1996.
• ———. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991. New York: Vintage, 1994.
• Laquer, Walter. Europe since Hitler: The Rebirth of Europe. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1982

States

• FRANCE
• Wright, Gordon. France in Modern Times. 5th ed. New York: Norton, 1995.
• Forrest, Alan. The French Revolution. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995.
• GERMANY
• Blackbourn, David. The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
• Craig, Gordon. Germany 1866-1945. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1978.
• Sheehan, James J. German History 1770-1866. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.
• GREAT BRITAIN
• Clark, Peter. Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990. New York: Penguin, 1997.
• Webb, R. K. Modern England. 2nd ed. HarperCollins, 1980.
• IRELAND
• Foster, R. F. Modern Ireland. Penguin, 1988.
• ITALY
• Di Scala, Spencer M. Italy from Revolution to Republic: 1700 to the Present. Westview, 1998.
• OTTOMAN EMPIRE
• Goffman, Daniel. The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
• Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• RUSSIA
• Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. A History of Russia. 5th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
• Figes, Orlando. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924. Penguin, 1996.
• Ward, Chris. Stalin's Russia. London: Arnold, 1993.
• SPAIN
• Carr, Raymond. Modern Spain 1875-1980. New York: Oxford, 1980.

Themes

• GENDER
• Braudy, Leo. From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Vintage, 2003.
• Higonnet, Margaret Randolph et al. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.
• Moses, Claire Goldberg. French Feminism in the 19th Century. Albany: State University of New York, 1984.
• Mosse, George L. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.
• Wiesner, Merry E. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
• This book also contains a chapter on the persecution of witches.
• SOCIAL HISTORY
• Kelly, Alfred, ed. and trans. The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization. Berkeley: University of California UP, 1987.
• HOLOCAUST
• Marrus, Michael R. The Holocaust in History. New York: Meridian, 1989.
• WAR AND SOCIETY
• See also "Gender" above.
• Best, Geoffrey. War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870. 1982. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1998.
• Bond, Brian. War and Society in Europe 1870-1970. 1984. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1998.
• Hynes, Samuel. The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. New York: Penguin, 1997.
• Townshend, Charles, ed. The Oxford History of Modern War. New York: Oxford UP, 2000