The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000

Synopsis

The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

362 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781800648722

Related ISBNs:

9781800648739, 9781800648708, 9781800648746, 9781800648715, 9781800648753, 9781800648722, 9781800648760

Publisher:

Open Book Publishers

Date of Addition:

02/08/24

Copyrighted By:

Jan Hansen

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Jan Hansen

Edited by:

Jochen Hung

Edited by:

Jaroslav Ira

Edited by:

Judit Klement

Edited by:

Sylvain Lesage

Edited by:

Juan Luis Simal

Edited by:

Andrew Tompkins