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| European Review of History | |
|---|---|
| Title | European Review of History |
| Discipline | History |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviation | ERH |
| Publisher | (unspecified) |
| Country | Europe |
| Frequency | (unspecified) |
| History | (unspecified) |
| Website | (unspecified) |
European Review of History
European Review of History is a scholarly journal dedicated to publishing research on the historical development of Europe and European actors. Its content engages with archival work, historiographical debates and comparative studies that concern figures, institutions and events across the continent. The journal situates contributions in relation to major turning points such as the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I, and the Cold War, while also addressing transnational processes linked to the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and the European Union.
The journal emerged amid late 20th-century efforts to professionalize cross-national scholarship rooted in traditions exemplified by journals like Past & Present, The English Historical Review, and Annales. Early editorial influences drew on methodological debates involving historians associated with Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, E. P. Thompson, Fernand Braudel and Geoffrey Elton. Over successive decades the title tracked shifting emphases from political narratives focused on figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Otto von Bismarck, Winston Churchill, and Vladimir Lenin to social and cultural inquiries attentive to actors like Emmeline Pankhurst, Karl Marx, Simone de Beauvoir and Antonio Gramsci. Institutional affiliations evolved through connections with research centers comparable to the Institute for Historical Research, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and the European University Institute.
The journal’s remit covers national and transnational histories anchored in episodes including the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Congress of Vienna, the Revolutions of 1848, the Paris Peace Conference (1919), the Treaty of Versailles (1919), and the Treaty of Maastricht. It solicits work on political figures such as Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Nicolae Ceaușescu and Lech Wałęsa as well as intellectuals including Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Isaiah Berlin. The editorial program emphasizes comparative studies that link episodes like the Industrial Revolution, the Great Reform Act, the Glorious Revolution, and the Russian Revolution with cultural phenomena surrounding Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romanticism and Modernism. Contributions often bridge research on institutions such as the European Commission, the Council of Europe, national parliaments like the Westminster Parliament, and regional constellations including the Benelux and Scandinavia.
Published on a regular schedule, the journal features research articles, review essays and critical notes that engage documentary corpora from archives like the National Archives (UK), the Bundesarchiv, the Archives Nationales (France), the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Vatican Secret Archives. Issues frequently include reviews of monographs by presses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan and Bloomsbury. Distribution channels mirror partnerships with university libraries at institutions like University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, Humboldt University of Berlin and University of Bologna and also appear in consortia associated with indexes maintained by bodies akin to the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The editorial board traditionally comprises scholars drawn from universities and institutes comparable to University College London, Trinity College Dublin, Central European University, Leipzig University and Sciences Po. Editors often include specialists who have published on topics involving Ottoman reforms, Austro-Hungarian politics, Polish partitions, Spanish Civil War, Italian Unification and German reunification. Submissions undergo double-blind peer review administered by referees affiliated with departments such as those at Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven. The review process aligns with professional norms promulgated by organizations like the International Committee of Historical Sciences and national academies including the Royal Historical Society and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in major bibliographic services comparable to Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR and Historical Abstracts. Its contents are discoverable through catalogues managed by consortiums such as OCLC WorldCat and citation databases maintained by entities like Clarivate Analytics and EBSCO. Citation tracking situates articles alongside works cited in monographs by scholars linked to projects funded by bodies such as the European Research Council and national research councils including the AHRC and the DFG.
Scholarly reception has highlighted the journal’s role in shaping debates that intersect with studies of figures like Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt and with analyses of events such as the Soviet invasion of Hungary (1956), the Prague Spring, the Yugoslav Wars and the Bosnian Genocide. Article citations appear in works published by presses including Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press and Yale University Press, and the journal’s influence extends into curricula at institutions such as King's College London, Leiden University and University of Warsaw. Critiques have engaged methodological stances tracing lineages to schools associated with Annales School, Marxist historiography, Cultural history and Political history.
Category:History journals