The Norton History Of Modern Europe
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From the Renaissance to the age of revolutions, The Norton History of Modern Europe stands as a monumental collaborative chronicle of the continent's most transformative centuries, authored by six of the twentieth century's most distinguished historians. The work presents a sweeping panorama of political upheaval, intellectual awakening, and social transformation, tracing the forces that shaped the modern European world — from the fractures of the Reformation and the ambitions of absolutist monarchs, to the thunderclap of the French Revolution and the industrialisation that remade society from the ground up. Each contributing author brings deep specialist authority to their respective era, creating a narrative that is both rigorously analytical and compellingly readable — a rare achievement in collaborative historical scholarship. Grounded in primary sources and enriched by decades of cumulative research, the collection argues that the modern world cannot be understood without confronting the full arc of European history in all its complexity and contradiction. Whether read as a unified text or as individual volumes, this landmark work remains an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and anyone captivated by the question of how the modern age came to be.
Author: Felix Gilbert, Eugene F. Rice Jr., Richard S. Dunn, Leonard Krieger, Charles Breunig, Norman Rich
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, W. W. Norton & Company
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
From the Renaissance to the age of revolutions, The Norton History of Modern Europe stands as a monumental collaborative chronicle of the continent's most transformative centuries, authored by six of the twentieth century's most distinguished historians. The work presents a sweeping panorama of political upheaval, intellectual awakening, and social transformation, tracing the forces that shaped the modern European world — from the fractures of the Reformation and the ambitions of absolutist monarchs, to the thunderclap of the French Revolution and the industrialisation that remade society from the ground up. Each contributing author brings deep specialist authority to their respective era, creating a narrative that is both rigorously analytical and compellingly readable — a rare achievement in collaborative historical scholarship. Grounded in primary sources and enriched by decades of cumulative research, the collection argues that the modern world cannot be understood without confronting the full arc of European history in all its complexity and contradiction. Whether read as a unified text or as individual volumes, this landmark work remains an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and anyone captivated by the question of how the modern age came to be.