Europe in the Modern World, Second Edition, is an engaging narrative history of Europe since 1500. Written by an award-winning teacher and scholar, it highlights the major episodes of the European past and vividly connects those episodes to major international events.
Europe in the Modern World pays considerably more attention to economic history than other textbooks do, demonstrating the role that economic developments–and the political, social, and cultural responses to them–play in shaping the political and social life of a given age. It reads not like a typical academic text, but more like the best narrative history.
