Europe: A Cultural History

ISBN-13: 9781138326149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 672 str.

Peter Rietbergen

Opis

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. 

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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, 1861–2011 (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.