Mighty continent a candid history of modern Europe
In The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe, Walter McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, provides readers with a sweeping historical narrative that takes in the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural devel...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Nashville, TN :
Creed & Culture,
2026.
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| Summary: | In The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe, Walter McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, provides readers with a sweeping historical narrative that takes in the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments in the major European nations from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Along the way, McDougall provides new insights on and interpretations of the Renaissance, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the Age of Exploration, the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions, the sources of modernism, the origins of World War I, the rise of totalitarianism, the advance of the European Union, the collapse of communism, and much else. Comprehensive yet compact, objective yet unabashed, attuned to European failings yet refreshingly free from cloying moralism, The Mighty Continent is history as it used to be: exciting, uplifting, ironic, not infrequently tragic -- and, above all, fair to the figures who made modern Europe so world-shakingly powerful and inescapably influential. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781967613007 1967613001 |
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