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History : Europe: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for European history.

Selected eBooks

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights : A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
The People's Revolution of 1789
Jewish Salonica : Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece
Madrid: A New Biography
France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart : An Epic Tale for Modern Times
The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance
The Pope in Poland : The Pilgrimages of John Paul II, 1979-1991
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions
Sex and the Weimar Republic : German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis
Medieval Monstrosity: Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe
Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague
Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945–1948
The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975: An Unexpected Path to Democracy
The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War
Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World
The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France
The Search for Wellbeing and Health between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
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Browsing European History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for European history are listed below.

D History General Suz 4
DA Great Britain Suz 4
DAW Central Europe Suz 4
DB Austria, Hungary, Czech Suz 4
DD Germany Suz 4
DE Greco-Roman Suz 4
DF Greece Suz 4
DG Italy Suz 4
DH Low Countries Suz 4
DJ Netherlands Suz 4
DK Russia, former Soviet Union, Poland Suz 4
DL Scandinavia Suz 4
DP Spain & Portugal Suz 4
DQ Switzerland Suz 4
DR Balkans Suz 4


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.