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The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (2015). Ther, Philipp. Europe since 1989: A History (Princeton UP, 2016) excerpt, 440 pp; Toynbee, Arnold, ed. Survey Of International Affairs: Hitler's Europe 1939–1946 (1954) online; Wasserstein, Bernard. Barbarism and civilization: A history of Europe in our time (2007), since 1914 online
Haskins focused on high culture to prove that the 12th century was indeed a period of dynamic growth. He looked at the history of art and science, the universities, philosophy, architecture and literature, and provided a celebratory view of the period. More recent views of the renewal have expanded the focus. [9]
Charles S. Maier (born February 23, 1939) is the Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. He teaches European and international history at Harvard. Biography
The European powers grudgingly accepted the Sultan's imperial rank above European kings, but were unwilling to countenance a higher position for the Sultan than that of the Holy Roman Emperor. In the Treaty of Constantinople (1533), at the height of Ottoman power, the European accepted the subterfuge of referring to Charles V only as King of Spain.
The history has its origins in the eight-volume Cambridge Medieval History which was published between the World Wars and of which Previté-Orton was one of the editors. In 1939, the Syndics of Cambridge University Press asked Previté-Orton to write a concise version of the earlier history which was a work of reference that in practice was too detailed and too long to be read in full.
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 is a 1990 book by the American political scientist Charles Tilly.. The central theme of the book is state formation.Tilly writes about the complex history of European state formation from the Middle Ages to the 1990s – a thousand-year time span.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe is a history of medieval Europe, first published by Oxford University Press in 1988 under the editorship of George Holmes. It is divided into six chapters by different authors, covering the period 400 to 1500 AD, each of which has either a northern or southern Europe focus.