J. Roberts

The Penguin History of Europe (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, The Penguin History of Europe traces the development of European identity in its many guises, through the age of Christendom, the Middle Ages, early Modern history and the old European order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141925097
• Artikelnr.: 39189364

Autorenporträt

J. M. ROBERTS was a Fellow and Tutor of Oxford University, now retired. His numerous publications include Europe 1880-1945 and The Paris Commune from the Right. In 1985, BBC2 transmitted the series The Triumph of the West, which he wrote and presented.

Inhaltsangabe

The Penguin History of Europe - J.M. Roberts List of Maps List of Chronologies Foreword Book One: Heritages 1. Bedrock: Geography
The earliest Europeans
The Neolithic and agricultural revolutions
Migrants and immigrants
Mentalities
Early Aegean civilization 2. Ancient Greece: The importance of the classical past
The Greeks
The Greek diaspora
The city-state
Conflict in the Greek world
The Greek "achievement"
The beginnings of systematic enquiry
An attempt to summarize 3. The Making of the Roman World: Etruscan origins
Macedon and the Hellenistic age
Alexander the Great
The Hellenistic world
The rise of Roman power
The Punic Wars
Empire
Celtic Europe
Republican decay
Civil war
The Jews and the Roman empire
Jesus of Nazareth
St. Paul 4. Imperial Rome and World History: Establishing the empire
The imperial legacy
Law and order
Christianity and the empire
Imperial problems: the east
Imperial problems: Europe
Diocletian
Christian empire
Decline and fall in the west
Western Europe at the end of antiquity
The Merovingians Book Two: Christendom 1. Re-definition: The age of Justinian
The burdens of empire
Changing religious destinies: monasticism
Bishops and popes
The western Church and the barbarians
Drifting apart
Doctrinal division
Byzantium and nearer Asia
Islam
The Arab conquests
An alternative civilization
Islam in Europe
Byzantium's new challengers
Slavs and Bulgars
Religious dispute 2. The Re-shaping of the West: Western Christendom
The papacy and the Franks
Charlemagne
The Carolingian heritage
A new empire
Italy and Mediterranean Europe
The Viking north
Anglo-Saxon England
The western Church at work
Church and State: issues of reform 3. Medieval Societies: Emerging from antiquity
A new agriculture
The social order
The beginnings of sustainable growth
Towns and trade
Technology
The Black Death and after
Social change 4. Frontiers and Neighbours: The World's Debate
Franks and Greeks
The Crusades
Eastern Europe and the Slavs
Kiev Rus
Christian Russia
Poland
Europe's emerging shape
A psychological frontier 5. The Civilization of the Middle Ages: The identification of an idea
The Church
Innovation and heresy
The Great Schism
New patterns of power
Kings and nations
England and France
Spain
Germany and Italy
A new political structure 6. New Prospects in the East: The Venetian republic
1204 and the crippling of Byzantium
The Ottomans
The end of Byzantium
Ottoman Europe
Russia
The mind of the west
Renaissance
Printing
Re-orientation
The weight of the past
Enterprise
A new world
New visions of the world Book Three: Launching Modern History 1500-1800 1. A New Age: Modernity and modern history
Numbers and modernity
Feeding a larger population
A new commercial world
Oceanic commerce
Slaving
The foundations of an industrial economy
Europe in a wider world 2. Society and Belief: Social order
Women
The fragmentation of Christendom
Luther
The European Reformation
England: a special case
Wars of the Reformation
Counter-Reformation
Science: a new force
Enlightenment 3. The Political Organization of Western Europe: Building blocks
Structures and issues
Habsburg and Valois
The Italian wars
The era of Spanish decline
The new Netherlands
England
The travails of monarchy
The Thirty Years' War
Political thinking and state power 4. The Ancien Regime: Contrasting monarchies: France and England
England
The France of Louis XIV
French ascendancy and the balance of power
The stabilization of western Europe
Change in eastern Europe
Poland's troubles
The new great power in the east
Peter the Great
Monarchy and the state in the eighteenth century
Prussia and the Habsburgs
Russia and the eastern question
Polish partition
New international structures 5. The World's New Shape: A new picture of the world
Africa
The Americas
The beginnings of European imperialism
The North American colonies
Europe encounters East Asia
Europe and China
Japan
Europeans in India
Trade, empire, diplomacy and war
Global economic change
Subjection and domination
Changing the world
Perception and feelings
The spread of Christianity
The beginnings of a European world Book Four: The European Age 1. New Politics: An age of revolution
The first overseas European nation
The United States and European opinion
The French Revolution
Revolutionary appearance and reality
The Revolution abroad
Revolution and European overseas empire
Napoleonic Europe
The new map of Europe
Shared experience 2. The World's New Rich: Europe's numbers
A new abundance
Rural Europe
New European lands
Industrialism
Steam
Industrial societies
A world economic system
Cities 3. A New Sort of Civilization: New patterns of life
Industrialization and ideology
Socialism
Intellectual and cultural change
Science 4. A New European Order: Legitimacy and its challengers
Foundations of peace
The July Monarchy
The new Eastern Question
1848
The Crimean War
Reshaping the map
Conservatism and modernization: Russia
Conservatism and modernization: the United Kingdom 5. World Hegemony: Europe's new global role
The Great Resettlement
The civilized world
The direct impact
New European nations overseas
Empire-building
India: the growth of responsibility
India: the Mutiny and after
France overseas
The "imperialist wave" and international relations
The Scramble for Africa
Imperial Europe and the Far East
China: the barbarian onslaught
China: concessions and decline
Japan: qualified hegemony 6. International Order and Disorder: New patterns of power
Nationalism
The management of danger
Socialism
Changing opinions
Rome and modernity
Bismarck's Europe
International relations in the 1890s Book Five: Europe's Twentieth Century: The Era of European Civil War 1. Pressures and Strains: European identity in a changing world
Privilege and democracy
Women in politics and society
The politics of mass society
Social fear
The spectre of socialism
Religion in European public life
Changing mentalities
Cracks in the European world hegemony
New competitors: Young Turks
New competitors: the Far East
Troubled empires 2. The Breakdown of International Order: Attitudes and expectations
Alliances and entanglements
The beginnings of international change
The re-emergence of Balkan questions
Russian recovery and Russian power
The end of peace
The crisis and after 3. European Revolution: The Great War
Revolutionizing the war
Revolution and strategy
The Ottoman collapse
The end of the first German war
The peace settlements
The League of Nations and Europe
Revolution and the new Russia
Locarno 4. Crumbling Foundations: Attitudes and ideas
The last age of formal empire
British India
A new Asia in the making
European empire in the Middle East
Europeanizing Islamic societies
Economic disaster: the world slump 5. The Last Years of European Illusion: New politics
A new authoritarianism
The re-emergence of the German question
Ideology in international relations
Hitler's revolution
The path to war
The second German war
The Second World War
The meaning of victory
Europe in 1945 Book Six: Europe in the Cold War and After 1. Europe in the Aftermath of War: The dwarfing of Europe
The new balance of power
The post-war USSR
The United States and post-war Europe
Cold War origins
The Marshall Plan
The liquidation of empire
The post-war Middle East
Israel and the Cold War
Europe divided: the first crisis
The beginnings of European political integration 2. Europe and Global Cold War: A new East Asia
The Middle East and North Africa
Europe and sub-Saharan Africa
European recovery
Political reorganization
New structures in western Europe
East European rumblings
The tensions of 1960-62
Change in the USSR
Complications
De Gaulle and Gaullisme
Germany: Ostpolitik 3. The End of the European Post-war Order: A search for stability: the 1970s
The oil crisis and western Europe
The United Kingdom
Communist Europe
Détent and the Soviet Union
The United Kingdom in the 1980s
Polish revolution
Contagion and emulation
A new Germany
Revolution in the Soviet Union
The dissolutoin of eastern Europe 4. A New Order inthe Making?: The break-up of Yugoslavia
The end of the USSR
European integration
The Islamic bogy
The new Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States
European disorder Postscript: Facing the Twenty-first Century Index