A History of Europe - Library Edition UNABRIDGED

history: A History of Europe - Library Edition UNABRIDGED

• List of Maps
• List of Chronologies
• Foreword
• Book One Heritages
• Chapter 1 Bedrock Geography
• The earliest Europeans
• The Neolithic and agricultural revolutions
• Migrants and immigrants
• Mentalities
• Early Aegean civilization
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 4 The ancien regime
• Contrasting monarchies: France and England England
• The France of Louis 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 3 A new sort of civilization
• New patterns of life
• Industrialization and ideology Socialism
• Intellectual and cultural change Science
• Chapter 4 A new European order
• Legitimacy and its challengers Foundations of peace
• The July Monarchy The new Eastern Question
• The Crimean War
• Re-shaping the map
• Conservatism and modernization: Russia
• Conservatism and modernization: the United Kingdom
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Book Six Europe in the Cold War and after
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Change in the USSR
• Complications
• De Gaulle and Gaullisme Germany: Ostpolitik
• Chapter 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
• Detente and the Soviet Union
• The United Kingdom in the 1980s Polish revolution
• Contagion and emulation A new Germany
• Revolution in the Soviet Union
• The dissolution of eastern Europe
• Chapter 4 A new order in the 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

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