The Birth Of Europe

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405137263

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The Birth of Europe by Jacques Le Goff Pdf

In this ground-breaking new study,Jacques Le Goff, arguably theleading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of theprimacy of the Middle Ages in the development of Europeanhistory. "[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessmentfrom a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves,not just territorially, but in that other precious element ofhistory: time." The Guardian "A book that never fails to be informative, readable andprovocative. Le Goff... has been the bravest and best of championsfor medieval history. This book... is in every sense aninspiration." BBC History Magazine Praised by prominent figures in Europe and history including:Rt Hon Christopher Patten, CH, Former Member of the EuropeanCommission, and Neil Kinnock, Vice-President, EuropeanCommission.

Author : Peter Thonemann,Simon Price
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141946863

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The Birth of Classical Europe by Peter Thonemann,Simon Price Pdf

To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past filled with great leaders and writers, emigrations and battles. Indeed, much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks and Romans, who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains. Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today, but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded them. The Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history, and also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close.

Author : Theodore S. Hamerow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469619590

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The Birth of a New Europe by Theodore S. Hamerow Pdf

Between the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War, Europe underwent a transformation unparalleled in its history. No comparable degree of change had occurred on the Continent since the New Stone Age. Theodore Hamerow examines the innovations that challenged nineteenth-century Europe, using a perspective that transcends events that occurred within national boundaries. He brings together political, social, diplomatic, and national developments to demonstrate how they relate to the profound transformations brought about by the industrial revolution. Using a wealth of statistics and other documentation to buttress insightful generalizations, Hamerow broadly appraises the implications of the shift in Europe from an agricultural to an industrial society. Among the subjects he considers are the rise of the middle and working classes, the spread of literacy and the enfranchisement of the masses, the growth of urban centers of manufacture and trade, the acquisition of colonies, the spread of military technologies, and the changes in the functions of governments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1401786194

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The Birth of Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Sabatino Lopez
Publisher : M. Evans
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 0871318636

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The Birth of Europe by Robert Sabatino Lopez Pdf

One of the most original and enlightening one-volume accounts of medieval Europe ever published.--The Virginia Quarterly Review

Author : Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107067226

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The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe by Hyun Jin Kim Pdf

The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from 'backward' and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped create. Their expansion also marked the beginning of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power by empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. The rise of the Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610390132

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The Birth of the West by Paul Collins Pdf

A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignorance to a continent on the rise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004189355

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The Birth of Modern Europe by Anonim Pdf

It seems undeniable that Jan de Vries has cast an indelible impression upon the field of early modern economic history. Utilizing the methods and concepts pioneered by de Vries, the contributors in this Festschrift display the depth and breadth of his influence, with applications ranging from trade to architecture, from the Netherlands to China, and from the 1400s to the present day.

Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199752729

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Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather Pdf

Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.

Author : Anna Procyk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505080

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Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World by Anna Procyk Pdf

This book explores the influence of Young Europe - an international alliance founded by Giuseppe Mazzini in 1834 - on the Polish, Slovak, Czech, and Ukrainian intelligentsia in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Gerald Simons,Time-Life International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:10325267

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The Birth of Europe by Gerald Simons,Time-Life International Pdf

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468308501

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Before Galileo by John Freely Pdf

A physicist and historian sheds light on scientific minds, breakthroughs, and innovations that paved the way for the Scientific Revolution. Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, a conflict which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. As a consequence of this narrative frame, virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the exciting discoveries usually credited to Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, and others. In Before Galileo, John Freely examines the pioneering research of the first European scientists, many of them monks whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of the monasteries where they studied and wrote.

Author : Thomas Ertman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521484278

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Birth of the Leviathan by Thomas Ertman Pdf

Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.

Author : Jacques Le Goff
Publisher : Collins & Brown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112262766

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The Medieval World by Jacques Le Goff Pdf

The Medieval World opens a delightful window into the past and will be essential reading for all students of the medieval period and for all those fascinated by the Middle Ages and history in general -- Provided by publisher.

Author : David Avrom Bell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618349650

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The First Total War by David Avrom Bell Pdf

The author maintains that modern attitudes toward total war were conceived during the Napoleonic era; and argues that all the elements of total war were evident including conscription, unconditional surrender, disregard for basic rules of war, mobilization of civilians, and guerrilla warfare.