The Oxford History of Modern Europe
The Oxford History of Modern Europe is a series of books on the history of Modern Europe published by the Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press) from 1954. The most recent volume appeared in 2012. The series was originally edited by Alan Bullock and F.W.D. Deakin and was intended to cover the period from the French Revolution to the Second World War.
Writing in 2005, David Stevenson observed that the series "belongs to a more leisured era" and noted that no volumes have ever published which deal with Austria, Italy and Soviet Russia. Nonetheless, he observed that "the formula has generated a number of classics, which have remained in print for decades."[1]
Books[]
The series comprises a succession of self-contained monographs, usually addressing an individual country or theme. They are, in order of publication:
Volumes[]
Author | Title | Release date | Pages | ISBN | Awards |
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A.J.P. Taylor | The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 | 1954 | 638 | ||
Raymond Carr | Spain, 1808-1939 | 1966; 1982 (2d ed.) | 766 | ||
Hugh Seton-Watson | The Russian Empire, 1801–1917 | 1967 | 813 | ||
Theodore Zeldin | France, 1848–1945, Vol 1: Ambition, Love and Politics | 1973 | 823 | 978-0198221043 | Won 1974 Wolfson History Prize |
Theodore Zeldin | France, 1848–1945, Vol 2: Intellect, Taste and Anxiety | 1977 | 1202 | 978-0198221258 | |
E.H. Kossmann | The Low Countries, 1780–1940 | 1978 | 793 | 978-0198221081 | |
Gordon A. Craig | Germany, 1866–1945 | 1978 | 840 | 978-0198221135 | |
James J. Sheehan | German History, 1770–1866 | 1989 | 986 | 978-0198221203 | |
Paul W. Schroeder | The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848 | 1994 | 916 | 978-0198221197 | Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995 |
Keith Hitchins | Rumania, 1866-1947 | 1994 | 587 | 978-0198221265 | Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995 |
David Vital | A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789–1939 | 1999 | 962 | 978-0198219804 | |
Zara Steiner | The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 | 2005 | 953 | 978-0198221142 | |
Richard J. Crampton | Bulgaria | 2007 | 528 | 978-0199541584 | |
Paul Bew | Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789–2006 | 2007 | 625 | 978-0198205555 | Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2009; Shortlisted for the 2009 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize |
Zara Steiner | The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933–1939 | 2011 | 1236 | 978-0199212002 | |
David W. Ellwood | The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century | 2012 | 598 | 978-0198228790 |
In addition, a number of additional volumes were projected, but never published. A partial list, from the rear dust jacket flap of the first edition of Hugh Seton Watson's The Russian Empire,[2] includes:
- France 1789-1848 by Richard Cobb
- Italy 1789-1945 by John M. Roberts
- Switzerland 1789-1945 by Michael C. Hurst
- Scandinavia 1789-1945 by Sven Hennigsen
- Poland 1789-1945 by H. T. Wiletts
See also[]
- The New Cambridge Modern History (1957–1979)
References[]
- ^ Stevenson, David (6 October 2005). "Casino Politics". London Review of Books. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ^ Hugh Seton-Watson, The Russian Empire 1801-1917 (1967)
- Series of history books
- Historiography of Europe
- Oxford University Press books
- 1954 establishments in the United Kingdom