Books in the Oxford History of Modern Europe series

A history of Spain between the years 1808 and 1975.

This survey is a major reinterpretation of France's achievement as a nation and of the individual experience of the French, which has taken its place as one of the great works of scholarship on modern France.

An ambitious, original book describing a century of Europe coping with America: its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business, and politics. These decades reveal how much emotional energy Europeans invested in finding their own ways to reconcile tradition and modernity under the pressure of the ever-evolving American challenge.

In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years.

A. J. P. Taylor examines the relations of the Great Powers, when Europe was still the centre of the world. Written in characteristically vigorous prose, this is a challenging and original diplomatic history, that also considers the political and economic forces which made continental war inevitable.

A survey of the social and political history of the Russian Empire from the reign of Alexander I to the abdication of Nicholas II. The author draws on Russian documentary material and the work of Soviet and foreign scholars.

Challenging the common assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war, this book provides an analysis of the attempts to reconstruct Europe during the 1920s. It examines the efforts that failed but also those which gave hope for future promise that are usually underestimated, if not ignored.

The history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870. The author not only analyzes the political structures and foreign, social and economic policies of successive governments, but also examines the individuals who dominated.

Traces the evolution of the Bulgarian state and its people, from the beginning of the Bulgarian national revival in the middle of the nineteenth century to the entry of the country into the European Union. This book highlights the problems and dilemmas created by the country's position situated between east and west.

The collapse of Communist power has focused attention once again on the processes of nation-building in Central and Eastern Europe. In this comprehensive study, Keith Hitchins traces how Rumania's political and intellectual elites attempted to create an independent state before the advent of Communist rule in 1947.

Professor Sheehan gives an extensive account of the social, cultural, and political developments in German history up to the Austro-Prussian war of 1866. The only study of the period available in English, this uniquely authoritative book will provide an indispensable guide to everyone interested modern European history.

The 20th century has seen the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People Apart examines the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to these events.

This history of Belgium and the Netherlands is the first major study in English to treat them as nations in their own right, while placing them in a wider European and world context.

This study of European international politics covers from 1763 to 1848. It charts the course of international history over this turbulent period, in which the map of Europe was redrawn time and again. It examines the wars, political crises, and diplomatic opportunities of the age, many of which had far-reaching consequences for modern Europe.

This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. This first part scrutinizes the way of thinking and of talking adopted by the French, their sense of national identity, and their ambivalent feelings about foreigners.