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People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2017), ed. by David Bates, Edoardo D'Angelo, and Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
After the Flood: The Early Post-Flood History of Europe (Chichester: New Wine Press, c1995), by Bill Cooper (illustrated HTML at creationism.org)
A General History of Europe, From the Origins of Civilization to the Present Time (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1921), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Emma Peters Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1903), by James Harvey Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Outlines of European History (2 volumes; Boston et al.: Ginn and Company, c1914-1918), by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, and Charles A. Beard
- Part I (Earliest Man, The Orient, Greece, and Rome; Europe to the Opening of 18th Century): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part II (From the Seventeenth Century to the War of 1914; revised with supplementary chapter on the Great War, 1914-1918): multiple formats at archive.org
A Short Sketch of European History: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation (labeled "Part I", but no later parts known to exist; ca. 1920), by H. E. Marshall (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
Early European History, by Hutton Webster (Gutenberg text)
Europe and the Faith, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
Europe, Its Past and Present Condition: Being a Comprehensive Manual of European Geography and History (Home Cyclopedia v8; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), by F. H. Ungewitter
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
General History of Western Nations From 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D., I: Antiquity (the only 2 volumes published; London, Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Emil Reich
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Histoire Primitive du Genre Humain (in French; Tournai: H. Casterman; et al., 1864), by A. Fr. Gfrörer, trans. by Charles Sainte-Foi
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1492-

A People's History of Modern Europe (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by William A. Pelz
- PDF with commentary at oapen.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Expansion of Europe: The Culmination of Modern History (second edition, 1917), by Ramsay Muir (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1492-1648

Annals of the Emperor Charles V (Spanish text and English translation and notes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1912), by Francisco López de Gómara, ed. by Roger Bigelow Merriman
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1517-1648

The Age of Reason Begins: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes, 1558-1648 (The Story of Civilization v7; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961), by Will Durant and Ariel Durant (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1648-1789

The Historical Register (2 volume set retrospectively covering the first 17 months of George I's reign, 1714-1716; London: Printed by C. Meere et al., 1724)
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google
The Prince de Ligne: His Memoirs, Letters, and Miscellaneous Papers (2 volumes; Boston: Hardy, Pratt and Co., 1902), by Charles Joseph Ligne, ed. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, contrib. by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and Madame de Staël (page images at HathiTrust)
Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1789-1815

The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799 (c2002), by Wayne Hanley (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
Mémoires du Général Dirk Van Hogendorp, Comte de l'empire, etc. (in French; La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1887), by Dirk Hogendorp, ed. by Dirk Carel August van Hogendorp
The Prince de Ligne: His Memoirs, Letters, and Miscellaneous Papers (2 volumes; Boston: Hardy, Pratt and Co., 1902), by Charles Joseph Ligne, ed. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, contrib. by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and Madame de Staël (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1789-1900

History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 (popular edition, ca. 1895), by Charles Alan Fyffe, ed. by Henrietta F. A. Fyffe (Gutenberg text)
Foundations of Modern Europe: Twelve Lectures Delivered in the University of London (second edition; Chautauqua, NY: Chautauqua Press, 1908), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Century of Revolution, 1789-1920 (London: Methuen and Co., c1922), by Margaret Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
Political Sketches: Twelve Chapters on the Struggles of the Age (London: R. Theobald, 1854), by Carl Heinrich Ludwig Retslag (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Secret Societies of the European Revolution, 1776-1876 (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Thomas Frost
Europe in Retrospect: A Brief History of the Past Two Hundred Years, by Raymond F. Betts (HTML at Wayback Machine)
The World War: A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text)
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, Formerly of the Grenadier Guards, and M.P. for Stafford: Being Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court, and the Clubs, at the Close of the Last War with France, by R. H. Gronow (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1815-1848

Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South, by Opening the Sources of Opinion and Appropriating the Channels of Wealth and Power (second edition, 1853), by David Urquhart (page images at Google)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1848-1871

The Reconstruction of Europe: A Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe, From the Rise to the Fall of the Second French Empire (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889), by Harold Murdock (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 1871-

The World War: A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict, by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 18th century

An Historical Review of the Transactions of Europe, From the Commencement of the War with Spain in 1739, to the Insurrection in Scotland in 1745 With Proceedings in Parliament and the Most Remarkable Domestick Occurrences During That Period; To Which is Added an Impartial History of the Late Rebellion (2 volumes; Reading: D. Henry, 1747), by Samuel Boyse
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 20th century

A Century of Revolution, 1789-1920 (London: Methuen and Co., c1922), by Margaret Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
Europe in Retrospect: A Brief History of the Past Two Hundred Years, by Raymond F. Betts (HTML at Wayback Machine)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- 476-1492

"A Tender Age": Cultural Anxieties Over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (c2008), by William F. MacLehose (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages (from the sixth London edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, ca.1870), by Henry Hallam (page images at MOA)
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1872), by Henry Hallam (page images at MOA)
The Chronicles of Froissart, by Jean Froissart, trans. by John Bourchier Berners and G. C. Macaulay (HTML at Bartleby)
Essentials in Mediaeval History (From Charlemagne to the Close of the Fifteenth Century) (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1909), by Samuel Bannister Harding, contrib. by Albert Bushnell Hart (HTML and page images at Indiana)
Famous Men of the Middle Ages, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland
- illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
Medieval Europe, by H. W. Carless Davis (Gutenberg text)
Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henri IV (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1857), by Jean Froissart, ed. by Thomas Johnes, contrib. by John Lord (page images at MOA)

Filed under: Europe -- History -- Sources

Translations and Reprints From the Original Sources of European History (partial serial archives)
De l'Histoire Profane dans les Actes Grecs des Bollandistes: Extraits Grecs, Traduction Française, Notes, avec les Fragments Laissés Inédis par les Bollandistes (in French; Paris: F. Didot, 1874), ed. by A. Tougard (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Europe -- Biography

Famous Men of the Middle Ages, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland
- illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

Filed under: Europe -- Church history

Report from Christian Europe (New York: Friendship Press, c1953), by Stewart W. Herman (page images at HathiTrust)
Bishop Burnet's Travels Through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: Describing Their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade, etc. (London: Printed for T. Payne, 1750), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)

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