A Short History of Europe: From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon - Softcover

Kerr, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842433466 ISBN 13: 9781842433461

Publisher: Pocket Essentials, 2010

Synopsis

From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible history of the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 years This fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of Europe and the European idea that has led up to this point. A continent of countless disparate peoples, races, and nations, governed by different ideas, philosophies, religions, and attitudes, Europe nonetheless has a common thread of history running through it, stitching the lands and peoples of its past and present into one fabric and held together by the continent’s great institutions: the Church of Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, the European Union, individual monarchies, trade organizations, and social movements. However, people have always harbored aspirations to make this vast territory one. The Romans came close and a few centuries later, the foundations for a great European state were laid with the creation of the Holy Roman Empire. Napoleon overreached himself in attempting to create a European-wide Empire—as did Adolf Hitler. Now, Europe is as close as it ever has been to being one entity, yet Europeans still cling to national independence. 

About this title

About the Author:

Gordon Kerr is the author of Goners, Houses of Death, and Timeline: History of the World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Essentials
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1842433466
• ISBN 13: 9781842433461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160