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Readings in European History

This site neither includes any overall histories of the region nor is it otherwise comprehensive — whence "Readings in" — but over the years, I've wound up putting enough resources onsite to warrant an orientation page to collect them. So, in descending order by size, here's what I have. I continue to add material.

	Readings in Italian History is my orientation page to some very disparate resources, most of them art history or the local history of small places: but first among them, Thomas Hodgkin's 8‑volume masterwork, Italy and Her Invaders. [ 9/21/24: 337 webpages, including 8 complete books — 6778 pages of print, 335 photos, 4 maps and plans, 96 other illustrations ]
	Readings in British History is my orientation page to a large number of equally disparate resources: a section on Roman Britain (including 4 complete books); a general survey of Celtic Britain; a book on a little-known Stuart pretender; a large section on the British settlement of Tristan da Cunha; two books on aspects of Britain's World War II history; material on English cathedrals; links to specifically British items elsewhere on site, as in the history of Canada and of the United States. [ 12/11/20: 222 webpages, including 12 complete books: — 3027 pages of print, 65 photos, 107 maps, 200 other illustrations ]
	The History of Ukraine is represented onsite by a good collection of authoritative books: from the earliest times thru World War II and into its postwar Soviet era. Three of the books, including a little life of Taras Shevchenko and a massive work on Ukrainian historiography, are by one of Ukraine's best-known historians. The others are by other Ukrainian historians, a noted American Slavic scholar, a United States congressional subcommittee, and a 17c Ukrainian rabbi. [ 3/8/23: 196 webpages, including complete 10 books — 2210 pages of print, 7 photos, 25 maps, 25 other illustrations ]
	Readings in French History include Royal Memoirs on the French Revolution; Ernest John Knapton's 1963 biography of Empress Josephine; a section with several books on France at War (in the 20c); and finally a few excerpts from the Souvenirs of the Marquise de Créquy (1710?‑1803). Several hundred more pages of material on the Romans on the Riviera, the Norman history of Sicily, and French colonial and diplomatic ventures in the Americas. [ 6/17/21: 125 webpages, including 9 complete books — 2556 pages of print, 26 photos, 16 maps, 15 other illustrations ]
	Readings in Dutch History collects journal articles on Dutch maritime power and the 1667 invasion of England; an additional 50 webpages, 1235 pages of print, fall primarily under the history of the United States or of Brazil. [ 2/13/14: 12 webpages — 223 pages of print, 18 photos, 2 maps ]

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