An edition of A History of Europe
(1996)
A History of Europe
1st American ed.
by John Morris Roberts
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Table of Contents
Book One.
Heritages
Page 1
Chapter 1.
Bedrock
Page 3
Geography . The earliest Europeans . The Neolithic and agricultural revolutions . Migrants and immigrants . Mentalities . Early Aegean civilization
Chapter 2.
Ancient Greece
Page 20
The importance of the classical past . The Greeks . The Greek diaspora . The city-state . Conflict in the Greek world . The Greek 'achievement' . The beginnings of systematic enquiry . An attempt to summarize
Chapter 3.
The making of the Roman world
Page 39
Etruscan origins . Macedon and the Hellenistic age . Alexander the Great . The Hellenistic world . The rise of Roman power . The Punic Wars . Empire . Celtic Europe . Republican decay . Civil war / The Jews and the Roman empire . Jesus of Nazareth . St Paul
Chapter 4.
Imperial Rome and world history
Page 58
Establishing the empire . The imperial legacy . Law and order . Christianity and the empire . Imperial problems: the east . Imperial problems: Europe . Diocletian . Christian empire . Decline and fall in the west . Western Europe at the end of antiquity . The Merovingians
Book Two.
Christendom
Page 79
Chapter 1.
Re-definition
Page 81
The age of Justinian . The burdens of empire . Changing religious destinies: monasticism . Bishops and popes . The western Church and the barbarians . Drifting apart . Doctrinal division . Byzantium and nearer Asia . Islam . The Arab conquests . An alternative civilization . Islam in Europe . Byzantium's new challengers . Slavs and Bulgars . Religious dispute
Chapter 2.
The re-shaping of the west
Page 106
Western Christendom . The papacy and the Franks . Charlemagne . Carolingian heritage . A new empire . Italy and Mediterranean Europe . The Viking north . Anglo-Saxon England . The western Church at work . Church and State: issues of reform
Chapter 3.
Medieval societies
Page 129
Emerging from antiquity . A new agriculture . The social order . The beginning of sustainable growth . Towns and trade . Technology . The Black Death and after . Social change
Chapter 4.
Frontiers and neighbours
Page 145
The World's Debate . Franks and Greeks . The Crusades . Eastern Europe and the Slavs . Kiev Rus . Christian Russia . Poland . Europe's emerging shape . A psychological frontier
Chapter 5.
The civilization of the Middle Ages
Page 162
The identification of an idea . The Church . Innovation and heresy . The Great Schism . New patterns of power . Kings and nations . England and France . Spain . Germany and Italy . A new political structure
Chapter 6.
New prospects in the east
Page 181
The Venetian republic . 1204 and the crippling of Byzantium . The Ottomans . The end of the Byzantium . Ottoman Europe . Russia . The mind of the west . Renaissance . Printing . Re-orientation . The weight of the past . Enterprise . A new world . New visions of the world
Book Three.
Launching modern history 1500 - 1800
Page 203
Chapter 1.
A new age
Page 205
Modernity and modern history . Numbers and modernity . Feeding a larger population . A new commercial world . Oceanic commerce . Slaving . The foundations of an industrial economy . Europe in a wider world
Chapter 2.
Society and belief
Page 220
Social order . Women . The fragmentation of Christendom . Luther . The European Reformation . England " a special case . Wars of the REformation . Counter-Reformation . Science: a new force . Enlightenment
Chapter 3.
The Political organization of western Europe
Page 239
Building blocks . Structures and issues . Habsburg and Valois . The Italian wars . The era of Spanish decline . The new Netherlands . England . The travails of monarchy . The Thirty Years' War . political thinking and state power
Chapter 4.
The *ancien regime*
Page 256
Contrasting monarchies: France and England . England . The France of Louis XIV . French ascendancy and the balance of power . The stabilization of western Europe . Change in eastern Europe . Poland's troubles . The new great power in the east . Peter the Great . Monarchy and the state in the eighteenth century . Prussia and the Habsburgs . Russia and the eastern question . Polish partition . New international structures
Chapter 5.
The word's new shape
Page 279
A new picture of the world . Africa . The Americas . The beginnings of European imperialism . The North American colonies . Europe encounters East Asia . Europe and China . Japan . Europeans in India . Trade, empire, diplomacy and war . Global economic change . Subjection and domination . Changing the world . Perception and feelings . The spread of Christianity . The beginnings of a European world
Book Four.
The European age
Page 301
Chapter 1.
New politics
Page 303
An age of revolution . The first overseas European nation . The United States and European opinion . The French Revolution . Revolutionary appearance and reality . The Revolution abroad . Revolution and European overseas empire . Napoleonic Europe . The new map of Europe . Shared experience
Chapter 2.
The world's new rich
Page 322
Europe's numbers . A new abundance . Rural Europe . New European lands . Industrialism . Steam . Industrial societies . A world economic system . Cities
Chapter 3.
A new sort of civilization
Page 334
New patterns of life . Industrialization and ideology . Socialism . Intellectual and cultural change . Science
Chapter 4.
A new European order
Page 346
Legitimacy and it challengers . Foundations of peace . The July Monarchy . The new Eastern Question . 1848 . The Crimean War . Re-shaping the map . Conservatism and modernization: Russia . Conservatism and modernization: the United Kingdom
Chapter 5.
World Hegemony
Page 368
Europe's new global role . The Great Resettlement . The civilized world . The direct impact . New European nations overseas . Empire-building . India: the growth of responsibility . India: the Mutiny and after . France overseas . The 'imperialist wave' and international relations . The Scramble for Africa . Imperial Europe and the Far East . China: the barbarian onslaught . China: concessions and decline . Japan: qualified hegemony
Chapter 6.
International order and disorder
Page 395
New patterns of power . Nationalism . The management of danger . Socialism . Changing opinions . Rome and modernity . Bismark's Europe . International relations in the 1890s
Book Five.
Europe's twentieth century: the era of European civil war
Page 411
Chapter 1.
Pressures and strains
Page 413
European identity in a changing world . Privilege and democracy . Women in politics and society . The politics of mass society . Social fear . The spectre of socialism . Religion in European public life . Changing mentalities . Cracks in the European world hegemony . New competitors: Young Turks . New competitors: the Far East . Troubled empires
Chapter 2.
The breakdown of international order
Page 432
Attitudes and expectations . Alliances and entanglements . The beginnings of international change . The re-emergence of Balkan questions . Russian recovery and Russian power . The end of peace . The crisis and after
Chapter 3.
European revolution
Page 448
The Great War . Revolutionizing the war . Revolution and strategy . The Ottoman collapse . The end of the first German war . The peace settlements . The League of Nations and Europe . Revolution and the new Russia . Locarno
Chapter 4.
Crumbling foundations
Page 467
Attitudes and ideas . The last age of formal empire . British India . A new Asia in the making . European empire in the Middle East . Europeanizing Islamic societies . Economic disaster: the world slump
Chapter 5.
The last years of European illusion
Page 482
New politics . A new authoritarianism . The re-emergence of the German question . Ideology in international relations . Hitler's revolution . The path to war . The second German war . The Second World War . The meaning of victor . Europe in 1945
Book Six.
Europe in the Cold War and after
Page 505
Chapter 1.
Europe in the aftermath of war
Page 507
The dwarfing of Europe . The new balance of power . The post-war USSR . The United States and post-war Europe . Cold War origins . The Marshall Plan . The liquidation of empire . The post-war Middle East . Israel and the Cold War . Europe divided: the first crisis . The beginnings of European political integration
Chapter 2.
Europe and global Cold War
Page 524
A new East Asia . The Middle East and North Africa . Europe and sub-Saharan Africa . European recovery . Political reorganization . New structures in western Europe . East European rumblings . The tensions of 1960-62 . Change in the USSR . Complications . De Gaulle and Gaullisme . Germany: *Ostpolitik*
Chapter 3.
The end of the European post-war order
Page 548
A search for stability: the 1970s . The oil crisis and western Europe . The United Kingdom . Communist Europe . *Detente* and the Soviet Union . The United Kingdom in the 1980s . Polish revolution . Contagion and Emulation . A new Germany . Revolution in the Soviet Union . The dissolution of eastern Europe
Chapter 4.
A new order in the making?
Page 563
The break-up of Yugoslavia . The end of USSR . European integration . The Islamic bogy . The new Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States . European disorder
Postscript: Facing the twenty-first century
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