Efnisyfirlit

• About the Author
• Author’s Acknowledgements
• Contents at a Glance
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • How This Book Is Organised
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Where to Go from Here
• Part I: Origins of a Continent
  • Chapter 1: Not So Much a Continent, More a Way of Life
    • Where Is Europe?
    • How Many Europes?
    • Is There Such a Thing as European Civilisation?
    • Why Does Europe Have So Many Languages?
    • Is There a European Culture?
    • What of Europe Lies beyond Europe?
    • Divided Europe or United Europe?
    • This Must Never Happen Again!
  • Chapter 2: The Stone Age Rocks
    • Three Stone Ages for the Price of One
    • Rummaging Through the Dustbins of History
    • Out of Africa . . . We Think
    • The First Europeans
    • Down on the (Stone Age) Farm
    • Meet the Flint Stones
    • Mining Metal
• Part II: Europe of the Ancients
  • Chapter 3: You’re Ancient History!
    • Greece Is the Word
    • Living in a Polis State
    • Squaring Up to the Persians
    • My Big Fat Greek Civil War
    • Macedonia and Alexander the Great
    • What a Way to Run a (Roman) Republic!
    • The Phoenicians – Coming to a Coastline Near You
  • Chapter 4: The Ups and Downs of the Roman Empire
    • War, Seduction, Murder, and War Again: The New Roman Empire
    • The Emperor’s New (Purple) Clothes
    • You Probably Wouldn’t Want to Be an Emperor
    • Getting an Empire
    • A Civilised People – Give or Take the Odd Gladiatorial Combat
    • The Beginning of the End of Empire
• Part III: Middle Ages
  • Chapter 5: Dancing in the Dark Ages
    • Meet Constantine
    • Changing My Religion
    • That’s a Very Interesting Question, Arius
    • And Lo, There Came Invaders from the East
    • How the West Was Won
    • Yet More Barbarian Raiders
    • The (Eastern) Empire Strikes Back
    • Let’s Be Frank
    • The Incredible Rise of Islam
  • Chapter 6: Gold, Murder, and Frankish Sense
    • Let’s Get this Church on the Road
    • Crisis in the East
    • Don’t Live Like an Egyptian: Christianity in the West
    • Who You Gonna Call? The Franks!
    • Holy Doctrinal Difference, Batman!
    • Axes of Evil: Enter the Vikings
  • Chapter 7: Knock, Knock, Knocking Heads at Heaven’s Door
    • I’m the King of the Germans
    • Russia Gets Religion
    • Turkish Delight
    • The Crusades
    • Playing Crusades at Home
    • Too Much Power to the Pope
    • The German Emperors Fancy Ruling Somewhere Warm
    • Vespers in Sicily
    • Just Who’s in Charge in France?
    • A Sunset in the East: The Ottoman Turks
  • Chapter 8: Don’t Call Us Medieval!
    • Why the Term ‘Middle Ages’?
    • We’re All Doomed! Religion
    • University Challenge
    • The Great Cathedrals
    • Castles, Chivalry, and Knights
    • Managing Money – The Medieval Way
    • The Black Death
• Part IV: New Ideas, New Worlds
  • Chapter 9: Back to the Future: The Renaissance
    • Small City States – Beautiful But Very Vulnerable
    • Forty Years of ‘Peace’: The Italian League
    • The Roots of the Renaissance: Italy
    • The Birth of Renaissance Man
    • The Body Beautiful: Renaissance Art
    • So Much Art, So Little Time
    • One Good Turn for Milan, 60 Years of War for Italy
    • The Renaissance Heads North
    • The Reigns in Spain
  • Chapter 10: Reformation Ruckus
    • We Three Kings
    • Charles and His Many Royal Duties
    • The Dangerous Business of Criticising the Church
    • Roll Up! Roll Up! Climb the Stairway to Heaven
    • Curb Your Enthusiasm – The Radicals
    • Germany Prepares for Civil War
    • A Role for the Swiss
    • What Was Happening in the Rest of Europe?
    • The French Revelation
  • Chapter 11: Mass and Massacre: The Wars of Religion
    • Charles V’s Bad Dreams
    • First Choose Your Pope – But Not Adrian!
    • The Italian Job: Milan Is Mine!
    • Following in Father’s Footsteps: King Henry II
    • This Pope Was Made for Talking: Pope Paul III
    • I’m the King of the World!
    • Just Put It in One of Philip II’s Many ‘Urgent Business’ Piles
    • France’s Wars of Religion
  • Chapter 12: Tsar Wars
    • The Ottomans: New Improved Turks
    • Alexander Nevsky’s Ragtime Band
    • Knights in White Satin
    • Princes of Denmark
  • Chapter 13: Absolute Power: The Sun King Rises
    • Give Me Liberties or Give Me Death
    • Trouble Brews in Germany
    • Rudolf’s Mad Reign
    • Bohemian Rhapsody: The Letter of Majesty
    • Sweden’s Martial Kings
    • Not So Fast, Ferdinand II! It is I, Richelieu!
    • Did You Really Think France Was Finished?
• Part V: Europe Rules the World
  • Chapter 14: The (Almost) Irresistible Rise of France and Russia
    • Spain’s Decline – It’s Terminal
    • A Golden Age in Holland
    • England on the Up
    • Expanding Overseas
    • Hold it Right There, King Louis XIV!
    • Who’s the Prince Most Likely to Succeed (to the Spanish Throne, That Is)?
    • Sunset in the West: Exit Louis XIV
    • The Nobility of Poland-Lithuania Invite Us into Their Beautiful Home
    • Sweden: All Seems Fine
    • A Deadly Game of Russian Roulette
    • Viennese Whirl
  • Chapter 15: Seeking Enlightenment
    • Faith or Reason?
    • The Militant Middle Classes
    • Encylopaedia Spells Trouble
    • Principals with Principles: The Enlightened Despots
    • Prussia’s Brandenburg Concerto
    • Prussia Invades Silesia
    • Enlightenment Europe
    • Please Don’t Give Joseph II Ideas
    • Poland Polished Off
    • The American Revolution
    • France on the Brink
  • Chapter 16: France Catches a Cold – and We’re All Still Sneezing
    • The French Have Problems, Problems . . .
    • One for You, Five for Me: Privilege
    • The Estates General to the Rescue!
    • Fear and Looting in the Country
    • This Means War! (and Terror)
    • Er, Thank You, General Bonaparte, We’ll Take Over from Here
    • The Bourbons are Back
    • So, Why Was the French Revolution So Important?
  • Chapter 17: Grime Wave: Europe Gets Industrial
    • A Touch of Romanticism
    • Is It Me, or Is It Getting More Crowded?
    • Rage Against the Machine
    • I’m A-getting Outta Here: Emigration
    • More Than a Touch of Class
    • Marx and Sparks
    • That’s Progress
    • Mr Darwin’s Interesting Ideas
  • Chapter 18: Building Nations
    • What Was So New about the Idea of a Nation?
    • I Don’t Know: You Liberate People, and Then They Want to Rule Themselves
    • Napoleon’s Europe
    • That’s Quite Enough Popular Nationalism for One Century
    • Europe’s Age of Revolution
    • Well, Napoleon III, What Next?
    • Honey, I United the Italians
    • Bismarck: One Part Blood, Three Parts Iron
    • The Franco– Prussian War
• Part VI: Europe Tears Itself in Two
  • Chapter 19: Europe’s Age of Empire
    • Carnage in Paris
    • The French Try a Republic . . . Again
    • Africa Scrambled
    • Germany on the Up
    • Collective Insecurity
    • Russia Works Out Which Century It Is
    • Buy Austria, Get Hungary Free!
    • Serbia: A Small State, Thinking Big
  • Chapter 20: The War to End All Wars – Doesn’t
    • One Big Happy Family
    • General von Schlieffen’s Cunning Plan
    • It’ll All Be Over by Christmas
    • The Russians Are Coming
    • Trenches in the West
    • Coming Full Circle: Serbia and Salonika
    • Italy Finally Joins In
    • War with the Turks
    • War at Sea
    • You Win Some, You Lose Some (Allies, That Is)
    • How It All Ended
    • Whose Fault Was the First World War?
  • Chapter 21: Revolution in Russia
    • A Tsar Is Born
    • A Little War . . .
    • Russia Goes to War and Gets a Revolution
    • We’ll Have None of That Democracy Nonsense Here
    • War Against the Peasants
    • Would You Buy a Used Economic Policy From This Man?
  • Chapter 22: Europe Goes to Extremes
    • The Yank Is Coming – and So Are His Fourteen Points
    • Not Very Blessed Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference
    • The League of (Some) Nations
    • The Italians: Fuming at Fiume
    • Can We Play Dictators, Too?
    • Whatever Happened to Leon Trotsky?
    • Stalin’s Russia
    • No Pasaran! Fascists versus Communists
    • How to Win Land and Intimidate People: The Anti-Comintern Pact
  • Chapter 23: World War to Cold War
    • Lightning War: Blitzkrieg
    • A Phoney War in the West
    • Game Over. Isn’t It?
    • Hitler’s New Order
    • The Holocaust
    • We’re Going to Have Real Problems If We Win
    • Time to Sort This Mess Out: Marshall Aid
    • Disconnecting People
    • A Cold War
    • Deutschland, Deutschland unter Alles: Germany Divided
  • Chapter 24: Eurovision
    • Watch Where You’re Pointing That Missile: NATO and the Warsaw Pact
    • Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Colonel Nasser?
    • Should I Stay or Should I Go?
    • Rock the Casbah: The French Won’t Go Quietly
    • Let’s Be Friends: France and Germany
    • Generals Come, and Generals Go
    • The Cold War Gets Frostier
  • Chapter 25: New Millennium: New Europe
    • Old Conflicts in the New Europe
    • Russia – After the Party
    • All Change on the Western Front
    • 9/11 and All That
    • Taking Stock
• Part VII: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 26: Ten Europeans Who Dominated the Continent
    • Gaius Julius Caesar, circa 100 B. C. – 44 B. C.
    • Philip II of Spain, 1526– 1598
    • Louis XIV of France, 1638– 1715
    • Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769– 1821
    • Adolf Hitler, 1889– 1945
    • The Volkswagen ‘ Beetle’, 1938– 2003
    • Thomas Cook, 1808– 1892
    • Pasta
    • Real Madrid, 1956– 1960
    • Abba, 1972– 1982
  • Chapter 27: Ten Days That Shook Europe – and the World
    • 22 May 337: Constantine the Great Is Converted
    • 29 May 1453: Constantinople Falls to the Turks
    • 22 November 1497: Vasco da Gama Rounds the Cape of Good Hope
    • 21 September 1520: Martin Luther Is Excommunicated
    • 26 August 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    • 13 December 1901: Marconi Sends the First Transatlantic Radio Signal
    • 29 May 1906: Finnish Women Get the Vote
    • 1 December 1934: Sergei Mironovich Kirov Is Murdered
    • 25 May 1940: Penicillin Is Successfully Trialled
    • 6 August 1991: Tim Berners-Lee Launches the World Wide Web
  • Chapter 28: Ten Places (apart from Naples) to See Before You Die
    • The Standing Stones of Carnac
    • Knossos: Palace of the Minotaur
    • Ostia: A Roman Town in the Roman Suburbs
    • Hagia Sophia – Church and Mosque Where West Meets East
    • Aachen – Palace of Charlemagne
    • The Islamic Beauty of the Alhambra
    • The Vasa: The Ship that Rose from the Sea
    • Sarajevo – Moving on From the Bullets
    • Berlin: The City That Came Back from the Dead
    • The Tragedy of Oradour sur Glane
  • Chapter 29: Ten Things Europe (and the World) Could Have Done Without
    • Antisemitism
    • The Inquisition
    • The Black Death
    • Sugar
    • King Leopold II of Belgium
    • The Berlin Wall
    • Russian Passport and Border Control
    • French Toilets
    • Lederhosen
    • Kraftwerk
• Index

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