| International Standard Book Number |
9781541603806 (hardcover)
|
| International Standard Book Number |
154160380X (hardcover)
|
| Personal Name |
Beaton, Roderick, author.
|
| Title Statement |
Europe : a new history / Roderick Beaton.
|
| Edition Statement |
First US Edition.
|
| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Basic Books, 2026.
|
| Physical Description |
xxv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
|
| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-379) and index.
|
| Summary, Etc. |
"What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before -- as the history of an idea, and a collective identity. Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, 'Europe' has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe's major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the uncertainties of the present. Throughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves. Grappling with the multilayered identities that have always come with being European, Europe places the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2,500 years."--Book jacket flap.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Imperialism.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Renaissance.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nationalism.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
History Religious aspects Christianity.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Colonization.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Europe Civilization History.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Europe History.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Greece History.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Holy Roman Empire.
|
| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
European Union countries.
|
| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
|