A new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present<\/p>\n
<\/b>What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe<\/i>, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before – as the history of an idea, and a collective identity. <\/p>\n
Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, ‘Europe’ has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe’s major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the uncertainties of the present. Throughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves.<\/p>\n
Grappling with the multilayered identities that have always come with being European, Europe <\/i>places the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2,500 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before – as the history of an idea, and a collective identity. Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, ‘Europe’ has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe’s major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries; and the uncertainties of the present. Throughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves. Grappling with the multi-layered identities that have always come with being European, Europe places the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2500 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[75],"product_tag":[4876,1562,601,349],"class_list":["post-113309","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-history","product_tag-economic-history","product_tag-european-history","product_tag-geopolitics","product_tag-social-cultural-history","pa_book_author-beaton-roderick","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-940-edition23","pa_imprint-allen-lane","pa_language-english","pa_pages-9229","pa_publisher-allen-lane","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n