Europe : a history
Norman Davies (Author)
From the ice age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire history of Europe in one single volume. The narrative zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent's development, to the close focus of the last two chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year. In between, Norman Davies presents a vast canvas packed with startling detail and thoughtful analysis. Alongside Europe's better-known stories - human, national and international - he examines subjects often spurned or neglected - Europe's stateless nations, for example, as well as the nation-states and great powers, and the minority groups from heretics and lepers to Romanies, Jews, and Muslims. He reveals not only the rich diversity of Europe's past but also the numerous prisms through which it can be viewed
History
xvii, 1365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780195209129, 9780198201717, 9780060974688, 0195209125, 0198201710, 0060974680
35593922
The Legend of Europa
I. Peninsula: Environment and Prehistory
II. Hellas: Ancient Greece
III. Roma: Ancient Rome, 753 BC-AD 337
IV. Origo: The Birth of Europe, AD c.330-800
V. Medium: The Middle Age, c.750-1270
VI. Pestis: Christendom in Crisis, c.1250-1493
VII. Renatio: Renaissances and Reformations, c.1450-1670
VIII. Lumen: Enlightenment and Absolutism, c.1650-1789
IX. Revolutio: A Continent in Turmoil, c.1770-1815
X. Dynamo: Powerhouse of the World, 1815-1914
XI. Tenebrae: Europe in Eclipse, 1914-1945
XII. Divisa et Indivisa: Europe Divided and Undivided, 1945-1991