Europe

Fully revised, updated and extended to include the momentous developments of 2020, the fourth edition of Peter Rietbergen's highly acclaimed Europe: A Cultural History is a major and original contribution to the study of Europe. It is the definitive cultural history for general readers and students.

Autorentext

Peter Rietbergen is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. He is author of 15 monographs, including Europe's India (2007); Rome and the World the World in Rome: The Politics of International Culture, 18612011 (2012); and the best-selling Short History of the Netherlands (1993, and ten revised editions till 2018), which has also been translated into Dutch, German and Japanese.

Inhalt

Prologue: Europe a present with a past Part 1: Continuity and change: New ways of surviving 1. Before 'Europe': Towards an agricultural and sedentary society 2. Rome and its empire: The effects and limits of cultural integration 3. An empire lost - an empire won? Christianity and the Roman Empire Part 2: Continuity and change: New forms of belief 4. Towards one religion for all 5. Three worlds around the Inner Sea: Orthodox Christendom, Islam and Catholic Christendom 6. One world, many traditions: Elite culture and popular cultures: cosmopolitan norms and regional variations Interlude: the worlds of Europe, c.1400-1800 Part 3: Continuity and change: New ways of looking at man and the world 7. A new society: Europe's changing views of man 8. A new society: Europe as a wider world 9. A new society: Europe and the wider world since the fifteenth century 10. A new society: Migration, travel and the diffusion and integration of culture in Europe 11. A new society: The 'Republic of Letters' as a virtual and virtuous world against a divided world 12. A new society: From Humanism to the Enlightenment Part 4: Continuity and change: New forms of consumption and communication 13. Europe's revolutions: Freedom and consumption for all? 14. Progress and its discontents: Nationalism, economic growth and the question of cultural certainties 15. Europe and the other worlds 16. The 'decline of the occident' - the loss of a dream? From the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century 17. From a dream shattered to a dream revived? Epilogue: Europe a present with a past, a present with future?