Europe: A History - Hardcover

Davies, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195209125 ISBN 13: 9780195209129

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Synopsis

A monumental history of Europe from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age features hundreds of "time capsules" that describe daily life at a particular time, along with panoramic descriptions of all of Europe at each period, maps, and diagrams. UP.

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Review:

"Books of real quality and importance are rare. Norman Davies's history of Europe is one of them. It is a brilliant achievement, written with intelligence, lucidity and a breathtaking width of knowledge... This is a book everyone should read" (A. C. Grayling Financial Times)

"A noble monument of scholarship, and all the more noble because it is so full of surprise and feeling... There are superb assessments of vastly daunting subjects" (Jan Morris Independent)

"Monumental, authoritative... A book for enquiring minds of all ages, it will answer hundreds of enquires and provoke thousands more" (Noel Malcolm Sunday Telegraph)

"No history of Europe in the English language has been so even-handed in its treatment of east and west... Strong characterisation, vivid detail, trenchant opinions, cogent anaylsis all make this tremendous reading" (Times Literary Supplement)

Book Description:

Norman Davies' seminal biography of a whole continent; 'it brims with learning, crackles with common sense, coruscates with wit and abounds in good judgement' - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195209125
• ISBN 13: 9780195209129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1424