European history textbook recommendations?

by vattghern08

Can anyone please recommend some college-level European history textbooks/books? Never got around to taking the general European history course in school.

Twopairjacksnines

What time span are you looking for? Heres a pretty comprehensive entry tier list for Early Modern Europe:

Western Europe:

Arblaster, Paul, A history of the Low Countries (Basingstoke, 2006).

Barton, Simon, A history of Spain (2nd edn, Basingstoke, New York, 2009).

Birmingham, David, A concise history of Portugal (Cambridge, 1993).

Briggs, Robin, Early modern France, 1560 – 1715 ( Oxford, 1977, 2nd edn , Oxford, 1998).

Collins, James B., The state in early modern France (Cambridge, 1995, 2nd ed n Cambridge, 2009).

Disney, Anthony R., A history of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 .(Cambridge, 2009).

Holt, Mack P., Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500 - 1648 (Oxford, New York, 2002 ).

Maltby, William S., The rise and fall of the Spanish empire (Basingstoke, 2009).

Northern and Central Europe:

Brady, Thomas A., German histories in the age of Reformations, 1400 – 1650 (Cambridge, 2009).

Fulbrook, Mary, A concise history of Germany (Cambridge, 1992).

Kirby, David G., A concise history of Finland (Cambridge, 2006).

Lukowski, Jerzy, Zawadzki, Hubert, A concise history of Poland (2nd edn, Cambridge, 2008).

Magnusson, Lars, An economic history of Sweden (London, New York, 2000).

Whaley, Joachim, Germany and the Holy Roman Empire (Oxford, 2012).

Southern and Eastern Europe

Black, Christopher F., Early modern Italy: A social history (London, New York, 2001).

Crampton, Richard J., A concise history of Bulgaria (Cambridge, 1997).

Magas, Branka, Croatia through history . the making of a European state (London, 2007).

Malcolm, Noel, Bosnia . A short history (London, 1994).

Molnár, Miklós, Magyar, Anna, A concise history of Hungary (Cambridge, 2005).

Najemy, John M. (ed.), Italy in the age of the Renaissance: 1300 – 1550 (Oxford, 2004).

Rossos, Andrew, Macedonia and the Macedonians: A history (Stanford, 2008).