19th century

==Further reading==
* Langer, William. ''An Encyclopedia of World History'' (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo00lang online free]
* Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. ''Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present'' (1970) [https://archive.org/details/harperencycloped00morr online frr]
* ''New Cambridge Modern History'' (13 vol 1957–79), old but thorough coverage, mostly of Europe; strong on diplomacy
**Bury, J. P. T. ed. ''The New Cambridge Modern History: Vol. 10: the Zenith of European Power, 1830–70'' (1964) [https://archive.org/stream/iB_CMH/10#page/n3/mode/1up online]
**Crawley, C. W., ed. ''The New Cambridge Modern History Volume IX War and Peace In An Age of Upheaval 1793–1830'' (1965)  [https://archive.org/stream/iB_CMH/09#page/n4/mode/1up online]
**Darby, H. C.  and H. Fullard ''The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 14: Atlas'' (1972)
**Hinsley, F.H., ed. ''The New Cambridge Modern History, vol. 11, Material Progress and World-Wide Problems 1870–1898'' (1979) [https://archive.org/stream/iB_CMH/11#page/n3/mode/1up online]

===Diplomacy and international relations===
{{Main|International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919)}}
* {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-24729-5|title=Greater France|year=1996|last1=Aldrich|first1=Robert|isbn=978-0-333-56740-1}}
* {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-24958-9|title=Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914|year=1996|last1=Bartlett|first1=C. J.|publisher=Macmillan Education UK |location=London |isbn=978-0-333-62001-4}}
* Bridge, F. R. & Roger Bullen. ''The Great Powers and the European States System 1814–1914'', 2nd Ed. (2005)
* {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/3014586|jstor=3014586|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.86299|title=History of Modern Europe, 1878-1919|year=1923|last1=Gooch|first1=G. P.|journal=Journal of the British Institute of International Affairs|volume=2|issue=6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.86299/page/n277 266]}}
* Herring, George C. ''Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776–1921'' (2017)
* [[Paul Kennedy|Kennedy, Paul]]. [[The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers|''The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500–2000'']] (1987), stress on economic and military factors
* Langer, William.  ''European Alliances and Alignments 1870–1890'' (1950); advanced history [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.237096 online]
* Langer, William. ''The Diplomacy of Imperialism 1890–1902'' (1950); advanced history [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177815 online]
* Mowat, R.B. ''A history of European diplomacy, 1815–1914'' (1922) [https://archive.org/details/historyofeuropea00mowauoft online free]
* {{cite book|doi=10.1515/9781400849949|title=The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century|year=2014|last1=Osterhammel|first1=Jürgen|isbn=9781400849949|url=http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780691147451.pdf }}
* Porter, Andrew, ed. ''The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century'' (2001)
* Sontag, Raymond. ''European Diplomatic History: 1871–1932'' (1933), basic summary; 425 pp [https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.503351/2015.503351.european-diplomatic_text.pdf online]
* Taylor, A.J.P. ''[[The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918]]'' (1954) 638 pp; advanced history and analysis of major diplomacy; [https://archive.org/details/struggleformaste00ajpt online free]
* Taylor, A.J.P.  "International Relations" in F.H. Hinsley, ed., ''The New Cambridge Modern History: XI: Material Progress and World-Wide Problems, 1870–98'' (1962): 542–66. [https://archive.org/stream/iB_CMH/11#page/n3/mode/1up online]
* {{cite book|doi=10.4324/9781315844503|title=The European Colonial Empires|year=2015|last1=Wesseling|first1=H. L.|isbn=9781315844503}}

===Europe===
* Anderson, M. S. ''The Ascendancy of Europe: 1815–1914'' (3rd ed. 2003)
* Blanning, T. C. W. ed. ''The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789–1914'' (Short Oxford History of Europe) (2000) 320 pp
* Bruun, Geoffrey. ''Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814 '' (1938) [https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.183653/2015.183653.Europe-And-The-French-Imperium-1799-1814_text.pdf online].
* Cameron, Rondo. ''France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800–1914: Conquests of Peace and Seeds of War'' (1961), awide-ranging economic and business history.
* Evans, Richard J. ''The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914'' (2016), 934 pp
* Gildea, Robert. ''Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800–1914'' (3rd ed. 2003) 544 pp,  [https://www.questia.com/read/55547824/barricades-and-borders-europe-1800-1914 online 2nd ed, 1996]
* {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-4039-3757-5|title=Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe|year=2003|last1=Grab|first1=Alexander|publisher=Macmillan Education UK |location=London |isbn=978-0-333-68275-3}}
* Mason, David S. ''A Concise History of Modern Europe: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity'' (2011), since 1700
* Merriman, John, and J. M. Winter, eds. ''Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire'' (5 vol. 2006)
* Steinberg, Jonathan. ''Bismarck: A Life'' (2011)
* Salmi, Hannu. ''19th Century Europe: A Cultural History'' (2008).

===Asia, Africa===
* Ajayi, J. F. Ade, ed. ''UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VI, Abridged Edition: Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s'' (1998) 
* {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139644594|title=Africa's Development in Historical Perspective|year=2014|isbn=9781139644594|editor1-last=Akyeampong|editor1-first=Emmanuel|editor2-last=Bates|editor2-first=Robert H|editor3-last=Nunn|editor3-first=Nathan|editor4-last=Robinson|editor4-first=James A}}
* [[Chamberlain. M.E.]] ''The Scramble for Africa'' (3rd ed. 2010)
* Collins, Robert O. and James M, Burns, eds. ''A History of Sub-Saharan Africa''. 
*[[Basil Davidson|Davidson, Basil]] ''Africa In History, Themes and Outlines''. (2nd ed. 1991). 
* {{cite book|doi=10.1017/9781316340356|title=A History of East Asia|year=2017|last1=Holcombe|first1=Charles|isbn=9781107118737|s2cid=140138294 }}
* Ludden, David. ''India and South Asia: A Short History'' (2013).
* McEvedy, Colin. ''The Penguin Atlas of African History'' (2nd ed. 1996). [https://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Atlas-African-History-Revised/dp/0140513213/ excerpt]
* Mansfield, Peter, and Nicolas Pelham, ''A History of the Middle East'' (4th ed, 2013).
* {{cite book|doi=10.4324/9781315509495|title=A History of Asia|year=2016|last1=Murphey|first1=Rhoads|isbn=9781315509495}}
* Pakenham, Thomas. ''The Scramble for Africa: 1876 to 1912'' (1992)

===North and South America===
*Bakewell, Peter, ''A History of Latin America'' (Blackwell, 1997)
*  Beezley, William,  and Michael Meyer, eds. ''The Oxford History of Mexico'' (2010)
* {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CHOL9780521232234|title=The Cambridge History of Latin America|year=1984|isbn=9781139055161|editor1-last=Bethell|editor1-first=Leslie}}
* Black, Conrad. ''Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present'' (2014)
* Burns, E. Bradford, ''Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History'', paperback, Prentice Hall 2001, 7th edition
* Howe, Daniel Walker. ''What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848'' (2009), Pulitzer Prize
* Kirkland, Edward C. ''A History Of American Economic Life'' (3rd ed. 1960) [https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.223513/2015.223513.A-History.pdf online]
* Lynch, John, ed. ''Latin American revolutions, 1808–1826: old and new world origins'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994)
* McPherson, James M. ''Battle Cry of Freedom The CIvil War Era'' (1988) Pulitzer Prize for US history
* Parry, J.H.  ''A Short History of the West Indies'' (1987)
* Paxson, Frederic Logan. ''History of the American frontier, 1763–1893''  (1924)  [https://web.archive.org/web/20160202142001/https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/47065/ttu_hfwc01_000001.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y online], Pulitzer Prize
* White, Richard. ''The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896'' (2017)

===Primary sources===
* de Bary,  Wm. Theodore, ed. ''Sources of East Asian Tradition, Vol. 2: The Modern Period'' (2008), 1192 pp
* Kertesz, G.A. ed ''Documents in the Political History of the European Continent 1815–1939'' (1968), 507 pp; several hundred short documents