Modern Europe 1789 - Present

Book Description
This new edition embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people' history. Asa Briggs (The Lord of Lewes) and Patricia Clavin, have written a comprehensive and accessible book covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. completely revised and brought up-to-date, the authors use a very broad range of sources including memoirs, archives, letters, songs and newspapers. Several areas have been updated specifically for this edition including religion and the modern Papacy, immigration in Europe and relationships between minority and majority groups, UNESCO, the European Bill of Rights, seeds of conflict in Bosnia and Croatia and Europe's relations with the wider world, with particular attention to the Middle East and Japan. For readers interested in European history.

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This new edition embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people' history. Asa Briggs (The Lord of Lewes) and Patricia Clavin, have written a comprehensive and accessible book covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. completely revised and brought up-to-date, the authors use a very broad range of sources including memoirs, archives, letters, songs and newspapers. Several areas have been updated specifically for this edition including religion and the modern Papacy, immigration in Europe and relationships between minority and majority groups, UNESCO, the European Bill of Rights, seeds of conflict in Bosnia and Croatia and Europe's relations with the wider world, with particular attention to the Middle East and Japan. For readers interested in European history.

About the Author
Asa Briggs (Lord Briggs of Lewes) was Vice Chancellor of the University of Sussex (1967-1976), Provost of Worcester College, Oxford (1976-1991) and Chancellor of the Open University (1978-1995).Patricia Clavin is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Keele.


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Modern Europe 1789-Present is an innovative history. As the narrative of big events that have shaped the Europe of today is clearly unfolded, Modern Europe also reaches deep beneath the political surface to examine how European society and culture have influenced, or been influenced by, these developments. It traces the emergence, from the French Revolution onwards, of a distinctive sense of Europe and Europeanness. At the same time it explores the growth and impact of the new phenomenon of the nation state - one of the nineteenth-century Europe's most powerful legacies to our own time.


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