Europe: a history 9780060974688, 0060974680
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells
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Table of contents :
Introduction --
Peninsula, environment and prehistory --
Hellas, ancient Greece --
Roma, ancient Rome, 753 BC-AD 337 --
Origo, the birth of Europe, AD c.330-800 --
Medium, the Middle Age, c.750-1270 --
Pestis, Christendom in crisis, c.1250-1493 --
Renatio, renaissances and reformations, c.1450-1670 --
Lumen, enlightenment and absolutism, c.1650-1789 --
Revolutio, a continent in turmoil, c.1770-1815 --
Dynamo, powerhouse of the world, 1815-1914 --
Tenebrae, Europe in eclipse, 1914-1945 --
Divisa et indivisa, Europe divided and undivided, 1945-1991 --
Appendices: List of capsules
Notes on plates and acknowledgments
Historical compendium.
