European Experience : a multi-perspective history of modern Europe, 1500-2000 / edited by Jan Hansen [and six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Jan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 969 pages)

Annual

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500-1800), modern (1800-1900) and contemporary period (1900-2000).

Contents:

Identities

Societies

Power and citizenship

Knowledge

Economy

Living with difference

Cultural encounters.

Notes:

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