Fortunately, there's actually been massive growth in English-language scholarship in Qing history in recent years, largely due to the emergence of the "New Qing history" school, which tends to characterise the Qing not as a typical "conquest dynasty" like the Jin or Yuan, nor as a completely sinicised dynasty, but rather as a semi-universalist dynasty which utilised heterogenous strategies of governance relevant to different contexts.
General or 'large theme' books:
- The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions (Professor Evelyn Sakakida Rawski: University of California Press)
- China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (William T. Rowe: Harvard University Press)
- The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China (Mark C. Elliot: Stanford University Press)
- A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (Pamela Kyle Crossley: University of California Press)
- Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 (Edward J.M. Rhoads: University of Washington Press)
Niche/specific topics:
- China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Peter C. Perdue: Harvard University Press)
- The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (Catherine Jami: Oxford University Press)
- The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757 (Gang Zhao: University of Hawai'i Press)
- Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations between Qing China and Choson Korea, 1636-1912 (Seonmin Kim: University of California Press)
- The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing (Yingcong Dai: University of Washington Press)
- God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (Jonathan D. Spence: WW Norton and Co.)
- Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 (James A. Milward: Stanford University Press)
- White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire (Wensheng Wang: Harvard University Press)
- Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China (Pamela Kyle Crossley: University of California Press)
- Our Great Qing: The Mongols, Buddhism and the State in Late Imperial China (Johan Elverskog: University of Hawai'i Press)