An Illustrated History Of Modern Europe 1789 1984

The seventh edition of this best-selling textbook offers an updated and lively account of the period and in his usual lucid style, the author explains the transformations which have taken place, in politics, economics and social ideas, during the past two hundred years. New material on events since 1945 looks at the rapid changes in post-war Europe, the increasing East-West split and the repeated efforts to establish a secure European movement.

'a superb volume, complete with maps, and tells the story of a continent from the 18th century to the present day.' -Irish Times

Modern Europe provides both text and illustrations which draw on a wide range of sources, from state archives, published memoirs and heroic paintings to private letters, oral testimony, picture postcards, cartoons and songs.

Early Modern Europe 1500-1789 is the central volume of a major new illustrated history of Europe from the collapse of the Roman Empire to modern times, written for upper school, college and university students, and for the general reader. Early Modern Europe opens with the climax of the Renaissance. Its humanists rightly saw themselves at the beginning of a new age.