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Modern European History

1. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   Second Edition

   Karl Marx’s 1848 text is reframed in this revised Norton Critical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoretical debates, capitalist globalization, the information technology revolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011 “Arab Spring.”More

2. Eighteenth-Century Europe: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789

   Isser Woloch, Gregory S. Brown

   Second Edition

   Eighteenth-Century Europe is the leading textbook of this pivotal period in European history.More

3. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

   Third Edition

   Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More

4. The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present

   Felix Gilbert, David Clay Large

   Sixth Edition

   The new sixth edition of the leading text in contemporary European history is now thoroughly revised with up-to-date scholarship.More

5. The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo

   Daniel Liebowitz, Charles Pearson

   A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."—National Geographic AdventureMore

6. The Victorians

   A. N. Wilson

   A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own.More

7. Napoleon's Women

   Christopher Hibbert

   As a soldier and an emperor, Napoleon was ruthless and determined; as a lover, he showed the same single-minded ferocity.More

8. Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

   Peter Gay

   A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.More

9. An Essay on the Principle of Population

   Thomas Robert Malthus, Philip Appleman

   Second Edition

   While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world’s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.More

10. 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

11. Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship

    Isser Woloch

    A great historian explains how Napoleon forged a dictatorship and explores the dilemmas of collaboration, personal and political.More

12. 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

13. 1688: A Global History

    John E. Wills, Jr.

    "A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. SpenceMore

14. The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    Bernard Lewis

    "Full of rare and exact information.... A distinguished work."—New York Review of BooksMore