Dimensions
191 x 280 x 23mm
A Unique Portrait of Europe's Common History.
With over 520 illustrations, 120 colour maps and covering over 3,000 years of history, the 'Illustrated History Of Europe' unravels the many cultural, economic, social and political strands of Europe's history from a European rather than a national perspective.
From this unique vantage point it examines the great prehistoric people migrations, the cave paintings of Spain and France, the Roman Empire, the spread of Christianity, the Middle Ages, the glory of the Renaissance, the revolutions of the Reformation, the dawn of industrialisation, Empire building and the two world wars of the twentieth century. It concludes with the tumultuous events at the close of the last millennium, from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR to the return of war in the Balkans.
Winner of the 1993 Le Prix de l'Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (France) and the Theodor Heuss Medaille (Germany) and translated into 28 languages the 'Illustrated History Of Europe' represents a watershed in historical writing.
