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Highlighting the key events, ideas, and people that have molded modern European countries, this fresh and energetic book offers a concise background of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Pulling on the long lasting theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the politics, economic, and technological causes and outcomes of revolution; the development of human protection under the law and democracy; and issues of Western european identity and integration. He deliberately avoids an in depth chronology of every country and time period by emphasizing the most crucial events which may have shaped Europe. Fourteen targeted chapters addresses such topical ointment issues as the Enlightenment; the People from france Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution; the ideas and impact of Marx and Darwin; the revolutions of 1848, 1917, and 1989; the unifications of Germany and Italy; Western european imperialism; both world wars; the Cool War; the evolution and development of europe; and current problems confronting Europe.
