📚 Modern History

Books with modern history on their catalogue record, first published between 1842 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject modern history in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 10,904 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Homage to Catalonia	George Orwell	1938	169
	The Age of Revolution	Eric Hobsbawm	1962	66
	The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783	Alfred Thayer Mahan	1890	61
	The Guns of August	Barbara Tuchman	1962	52
	Worlds Together, Worlds Apart	Robert Tignor	2008	42
	21 Lessons for the 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	2018	33
	The proud tower	Barbara Tuchman	1959	32
	A history of the modern world	R. R. Palmer	1950	23
	On Tyranny	Timothy Snyder	2017	21
	Fascism	Madeleine Korbel Albright	2018	18
	Tiempo nublado	Octavio Paz	1983	14
	History of Europe from the commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815	Archibald Alison	1842	13
	Abraham Lincoln's World	Genevieve Foster	1944	13
	The Origins of the Modern World	Robert B. Marks	2006	13
	Modern history	Carl Lotus Becker	1931	12
	A history of modern Europe	Charles Alan Fyffe	1881	11
	The age of extremes	Eric Hobsbawm	1994	11
	Tragedy and hope	Carroll Quigley	1966	10
	Lectures on modern history	John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton	1906	9
	Days of our years	Pierre Van Paassen	1939	9
	World politics since 1945	Calvocoressi, Peter.	1968	9
	On the great highway	James Creelman	1901	8
	George Washington's world	Genevieve Foster	1941	8
	La faillite de la paix (1918-1939)	Maurice Baumont	1946	8
	An introduction to contemporary history	Geoffrey Barraclough	1964	8
	The pursuit of history	John Tosh	1984	8
	The World in the Twentieth Century	Daniel R. Brower	1991	8
	Conspiracy	Charlotte Greig	2003	8
	The story of liberty	Charles Carleton Coffin	1878	7
	If It Had Happened Otherwise	John Collings Squire	1931	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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