Europe: a history

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Introduction -- Peninsula, environment and prehistory -- Hellas, ancient Greece -- Roma, ancient Rome, 753 BC-AD 337 -- Origo, the birth of Europe, AD c.330-800 -- Medium, the Middle Age, c.750-1270 -- Pestis, Christendom in crisis, c.1250-1493 -- Renatio, renaissances and reformations, c.1450-1670 -- Lumen, enlightenment and absolutism, c.1650-1789 -- Revolutio, a continent in turmoil, c.1770-1815 -- Dynamo, powerhouse of the world, 1815-1914 -- Tenebrae, Europe in eclipse, 1914-1945 -- Divisa et indivisa, Europe divided and undivided, 1945-1991 -- Appendices: List of capsules; Notes on plates and acknowledgments; Historical compendium.;[This book offers] a panorama of Europe, East and West, from the Ice Age to the Cold War, from the Urals to Gibraltar.-Front Cover. Introduction -- Peninsula, environment and prehistory -- Hellas, ancient Greece -- Roma, ancient Rome, 753 BC-AD 337 -- Origo, the birth of Europe, AD c.330-800 -- Medium, the Middle Age, c.750-1270 -- Pestis, Christendom in crisis, c.1250-1493 -- Renatio, renaissances and reformations, c.1450-1670 -- Lumen, enlightenment and absolutism, c.1650-1789 -- Revolutio, a continent in turmoil, c.1770-1815 -- Dynamo, powerhouse of the world, 1815-1914 -- Tenebrae, Europe in eclipse, 1914-1945 -- Divisa et indivisa, Europe divided and undivided, 1945-1991 -- Appendices: List of capsules Notes on plates and acknowledgments Historical compendium.