Illustrated History of Europe: A Unique Guide to Europe's Common Heritage

by Frederic Delouche (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.25

  This collaboration between 12 historians from all over Europe aims to provide a truly European view of the history of the continent of Europe. Beginning by examining the concept of a European identity, through geography, language and culture, the authors then trace the history of Europe from early man to the 1990s, highlighting significant events and themes from the Crusades to the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway. Illustrated throughout with a selection of imagery and over 100 instructive maps, this book aims to make a contribution to the better understanding of our European heritage. The twelve contributors are: Jacques Aldebert (France), Johan Bender (Denmark), Jiri Grusa (Czechoslovakia), Scipione Guarraccino (Italy), Ignace Massan (Belgium), Dr. Kenneth Milne (Ireland), Foula Pispiringou (Greece), Dr. Juan Antonio Sanchez and Garcia Sauco (Spain), Antonio Simoes Rodrigues (Portugal), Ben W.M. Smulders (Netherlands), Dieter Tiemann (Germany), and Dr. Robert Unwin (Britain).

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.29

  The Illustrated History of Europe represents a watershed in historical writing. The collective effort of a team of twelve European historians, it unravels the many cultural, economic, social and political strands of over 14,000 years of Europe's history from a European rather than a national perspective. With this broad view it examines the great prehistoric people migrations, the cave paintings of Spain and France, the Roman Empire, the spread of Christianity, the Middle Ages, the glory of the Renaissance, the revolutions of the Reformation, the dawn of industrialization, Empire building and the two world wars of this century, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR. It concludes with the unexpected return of war to Europe with the collapse of Yugoslavia and examines current hopes and plans for a united Europe in this new millennium.