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The Penguin History Of Europe
The ''Penguin History of Europe'' is a popular book series about the history of Europe, published by Penguin Books. The series includes: # ''The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine'' (2011) by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann # '' The Inheritance of Rome: Europe 400–1000'' (2010) by Chris Wickham # ''Europe in the High Middle Ages'' (2004) by William Chester Jordan # ''Renaissance Europe'' (Forthcoming) by Anthony Grafton # ''Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517–1648'' (2015) by Mark Greengrass # '' The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815'' (2008) by Tim Blanning # ''The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914'' (2017) by Richard J. Evans # '' To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949'' (2015) by Ian Kershaw # ''The Global Age: Europe 1950–2017'' (2020) by Ian Kershaw See also *''Penguin History of Britain The ''Penguin History of Britain'' is a popular book series on British history, published by Penguin Books. It appeared in nine volumes between 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' reprint series Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series ''The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill'' (founded by British publisher John Bell (publisher), John Bell in 1777). In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishers, Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the ''Collection of British and American Authors'', a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. Later British reprint series were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe 1648–1815
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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