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Modern European History

1. The French Revolution

   J. F. Bosher

   For those who regard the French Revolution as tribal myth told and retold, this new interpretation will come as a shock.More

2. The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850

   Charles Breunig, Matthew Levinger

   Third Edition

   The Revolutionary Era, Third Edition, provides a vivid historical account of the forces that shaped early nineteenth-century Europe.More

3. The Churchill War Papers: At the Admirality

   Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert

   Volume(s): 1 / September 1939-May 1940

   "A major addition to the Churchill literature."—Publishers WeeklyMore

4. The Birth of a New Physics

   I. Bernard Cohen

   Revised and Updated

   The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still.More

5. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

   Robert Darnton

   Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.More

6. Darwin

   Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman

   Third Edition

   "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.More

7. A Journal of the Plague Year

   Daniel Defoe, Paula R. Backsheider

   This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe’s most important works reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe’s lifetime.More

8. Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

   Adrian Desmond, James Moore

   "Unquestionably the finest [biography] ever written about Darwin. . . . Darwin has now become, and properly, the quintessentially socially embedded scientist. Desmond and Moore are brilliant in their pursuit of this truly unifying theme."—Stephen Jay GouldMore

9. The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715

   Richard S. Dunn

   Second Edition

   This series provides seven original, through, and well-balanced volumes for courses in European history from the Renaissance to the present.More

10. The Marx-Engels Reader

    Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

    Second Edition

    This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.More

11. The Praise of Folly and Other Writings

    Desiderius Erasmus, Robert M. Adams

    This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus’s writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English.More

12. Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

    Erik H. Erikson

    In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.More

13. Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947

    Byron Farwell

    "The stories are glorious and told with zest and verve."—Washington TimesMore

14. The Tender Passion: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud

    Peter Gay

    The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.More

15. Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

    Peter Gay

    "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineMore