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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| 505 | 0 | |a The classical origins of European civilization -- The biblical origins of European civilization -- Faith based on reason: the medieval millennium -- Renaissance! Humanism and the classical revival -- "A mighty fortress is our god": the Protestant Reformation -- "Set all aflame!" The Catholic Reformation -- Spices, specie, and souls: Europe goes global -- Two cardinals and a Sun King: absolutism in France -- Parliaments triumphant: absolutism thwarted in England -- To probe the mind of God: the scientific revolution -- Soldiers, serfs, icons, and axes: the rise of Prussia and Russia -- Reason based on faith: the competing enlightenments -- Competition for empire: Britannia rules the waves -- Liberty, equality, fraternity betrayed: the French Revolution -- A world restored: the birth of conservatism and liberalism -- Machines in the garden: four industrial revolutions -- 1848 and after: romantic revolutions and realistic reforms -- "Nothing to lose but your chains": the rise of socialism -- Fluttered folk and wild: Europe's new imperialism -- The snake that ate its tail: the culture of modernity -- "Human, all too human": the descent into World War I -- Storm of steel: the traumas of war and peace -- Class war: Marxism-Leninism captures Russia -- Race war: fascism and Nazism capture Italy and Germany -- Years the locust hath eaten: the Great Depression -- Descent into hell: World War II and its holocausts -- Echternach dance: the Cold War and the revival of Europe -- Be not proud, be not ashamed: in defense of the West. | |
| 520 | |a 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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