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Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
xxi, 341 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.
From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill comes another popular history -- this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. It is a truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
803 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment—500 to 1700 AD—tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved over the course of 1,200 years, setting the stage for the modern era." -- inside front jacket flap.
"A history of European intellectual life from 500 AD to 1700 AD"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
v, 536 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Some fifty million people were dead, and millions more languished in physical and moral disarray. The devastation of World War II was unprecedented in character as well as in scale. Unlike the First World War, the second blurred the line between soldier and civilian, inflicting untold horrors on people from all walks of life. A continent that had previously considered itself the very measure of civilization for the world...
5) Empires of the weak: the real story of European expansion and the creation of the new world order
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 196 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans actually had no general military superiority in the early modern era. J.C....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent. Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores...
8) Gabriële
Author
Publisher
Europa editions
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1908, the height of the Belle Époque, and a brilliant, young French woman named Gabriële, newly graduated from the most elite music school in Europe, meets a volcanic Spanish artist named Francis. Following a whirlwind romance, they marry and fall headlong into a Paris that is experimenting with new forms of living, thinking, and creating. Soon after marrying Francis, Gabriële meets Marcel, another young artist, five years her junior....