Further Reading

Gottlieb, Anthony.  The Dream of Reason:  A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance  (2nd ed, 2016)  512 pages. (@ UNF, 1st edition, 2000)

This one is more technical than the one above:

Kenny, Anthony.  A New History of Western Philosophy  (2012)  1,058 pages.  Covers 2,600 years of philosophy.  It is also available in four separate volumes.  (@JPL)


Philosophy of the Enlightenment

Outram, Dorinda.  The Enlightenment  (2013, 3rd edition)  186 pages.  (A concise overview).  (@UNF)

Israel, Jonathan I.  A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy  (2011)  296 pages  (@ JPL)
  
Robertson, John. The Case for The Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760  (2015)   476 pages (@ UNF)
Hunt, Lynn.  Inventing Human Rights  (2008)  272 pages.  (@UNF)

Pagden, Antony.  The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe  (1994, revised edition)  (@UNF ? missing?)  

Kahn, Victoria, et al (eds).  Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850  (2006)  309 pages.   (@ UNF)


Some Medieval History

Madigan, Kevin.  Medieval Christianity: A New History  (2015)  512 pages.





17th and 18th Century European History

Upton, Anthony.  Europe: 1600 - 1789  (2001)  448 pages.  (@UNF, JPL)  (A very good  overview)

Cameron, Euan. Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History  (1999)  440 pages.  (@ UNF, JPL)  (a good alternative to the overview above)   

Greyerz, Kaspar von.  Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500 - 1800   (2007)  320 pages. 

Pagden, Anthony.  Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France c. 1500 - 1800  (1998)  244 pages  (@UNF)

Wilson, Peter.  The Thirty Years' War: Europe's Tragedy  (2011)  1,024 pages.  (@UNF, JPL)

Baugh, Daniel.  The Global Seven Years War, 1754 - 1763  (2011)  752 pages.


Netherlands (The Dutch Republic):

Israel, Jonathan I.  The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 (Oxford History of Early Modern Europe)  (1998)  1,280 pages  (@JPL)

Shama, Simon.  The Embarrassment of Riches:  An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age  (1997)  720 pages.  (@UNF)


England/Britain:

Kishlansky,  Mark.  A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603 - 1714  (1999)  400 pages.

Underdown, David.  A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth Century England  (1996)  196 pages.  (@UNF)

Greesy, David.  England on the Edge:  Crisis and Revolution, 1640 - 1642  (2007)  462 pages. (@UNF)

Braddick, Michael. God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars  (2009)  784 pages.


France:

Beik, William.  A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France  (2009)  420 pages.

Roche, Daniel.  France in the Enlightenment  (1998)  736 pages.  (@UNF, JPL)

McPhee, Peter.  Liberty or Death: The French Revolution  (2016)  488 pages


Germany:

Wilson, Peter.  Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire  (2016)  1,008 pages.
(2017 paperback edition, less expensive)


Austria:

Judsen, Pieter.  The Habsburg Empire: A New History  (2016) 

Ingrao, Charles.  The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618 - 1815  (2000 or later, second edition)  288 pages
(The first edition from 1994 is in the UNF library)


Books on 17th and 18th century philosophers or philosophical works

Nadler, Stephen.  A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age  (2013)  314 pages  (@UNF)  

Antognazza,  Maria Rosa.  Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography  (2011)  652 pages

Damrosch, Leo.  Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius  (2007)  567 pages. (@UNF)

Davidson, Ian.  Voltaire: A Life  (2012)  560 pages.  (@JPL)

Conroy, Jr.  Peter.  Montesquieu Revisited  (1992)  153 pages.  (@JPL)

Rasmussen, Dennis.  The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought  (2017)  336 pages.  

Phillipson, Nicolas. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life  (2012)  352 pages.  (@JPL)

Nelson, Craig.  Thomas Paine:  Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations  (2007)  396 pages.  (@UNF, @JPL)

Ellis, Joseph.  Thomas Jefferson: American Sphinx  (1998)  440 pages.  (@UNF,JPL)

Boles, John.  Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty  (2017)  640 pages.  (@JPL)