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. [1] The most recent volume appeared in 2022. 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.
The series comprises a succession of self-contained monographs, usually addressing an individual country or theme. They are, in order of publication:
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 | |
John W. Boyer | Austria 1867-1955 | 2022 | 1056 | 978-0198221296 |
Writing in 2005, David Stevenson observed that the series "belongs to a more leisured era" and noted that no volumes were 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." [2] A volume on Austria was, however, released in 2022.
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