This volume brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss the major debates in the study of early twentieth-century Europe.

• Brings together contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars.
• Provides an overview of current thinking on the period.
• Traces the great political, social and economic upheavals of the time.
• Illuminates perennial themes, as well as new areas of enquiry.
• Takes a pan-European approach, highlighting similarities and differences across nations and regions.

This Companion provides an overview of European history during the 'long' nineteenth century, from 1789 to 1914.

• Consists of 32 chapters written by leading international scholars
• Balances coverage of political, diplomatic and international history with discussion of economic, social and cultural concerns
• Covers both Eastern and Western European states, including Britain
• Pays considerable attention to smaller countries as well as to the great powers
• Compares particular phenomena and developments across Europe

This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.

• Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe
  
• Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context
  
• Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe

This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history.

• Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation.
  
• Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas.
  
• Takes a broad, inclusive approach - covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate.

This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.

• Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive.
  
• Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective.
  
• Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite.
  
• Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are...

Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity.

• Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes
  
• Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship;...

A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history.

• Examines the origins, development and impact of the French Revolution
• Features original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French.
• Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical debates on the revolution and future directions in scholarship
• Gives equally thorough treatment to both causes and outcomes of the French Revolution...

A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, social, and cultural character of Europe during and since the Cold War.

• Includes 22 original essays by an international team of expert scholars
  
• Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout Europe in the Cold War and Post Cold War periods
  
• Discusses a wide range of topics including the Single Market, European-American relations, family life and...

This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.

• Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe
  
• Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context
  
• Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe