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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Nashville, TN :
Creed & Culture,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
