(P/B) EUROPE

Παρουσίαση

From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. Chosen ten times as Book of the Year, it is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken. (From the publisher)

«Books of real quality and importance are rare. Norman Davies's history of Europe is one of them. It is a brilliant achievement, written with intelligence, lucidity and a breathtaking width of knowledge... This is a book everyone should read» (A.C. Grayling, Financial Times)
«A noble monument of scholarship, and all the more noble because it is so full of surprise and feeling... There are superb assessments of vastly daunting subjects» (Jan Morris, Independent)
«Comprehensive, irreverent and immensely stimulating» (Michael Burleigh, Independent on Sunday)
«A huge, heroic book... After Davies, it will never be possible to write a history of Europe in the old way again» (London Review of Books)
«It brims with learning, crackles with common sense, coruscates with wit and abounds in good judgement» (Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Sunday Times)
«Monumental, authoritative... A book for enquiring minds of all ages, it will answer hundreds of enquiries and provoke thousands more» (Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph)
«One of those great books... It deserves the greatest possible readership» (The Times)
«No history of Europe in the English language has been so even-handed in its treatment of east and west... Strong characterisation, vivid detail, trenchant opinions, cogent analysis all make this tremendous reading» (T.L.S.)

Περιεχόμενα

List of Maps
The Legend of Europa
Introduction
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
Notes to Chapters
Notes to Capsules
Appendix I. List of Capsules
Appendix II. Notes on Plates and Acknowledgements
Appendix III. Historical Compendium
Index
Plates