{"product_id":"9780241624500","title":"Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eA magisterial history, written with great panache, that is both enlightening and deeply readable. A true \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e - Peter Frankopan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In \u003ci\u003eEurope\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before - as the history of an idea, and a collective identity.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, 'Europe' has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe's major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the uncertainties of the present. Throughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrappling with the multilayered identities that have always come with being European, \u003ci\u003eEurope \u003c\/i\u003eplaces the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2,500 years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57001952313717,"sku":"9780241624500","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780241624500.jpg?v=1774607617","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780241624500","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}