Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Legend of Europa
Introduction -- Page 1
I: Peninsula: Environment and Prehistory -- Page 47
II: Hellas: Ancient Greece -- Page 95
III: Roma: Ancient Rome, 753 BC-AD 337 -- Page 149
IV: Origo: The Birth of Europe, AD c.330-800 -- Page 213
V: Medium: The Middle Age, c.750-1270 -- Page 291
VI: Pestis: Christendom in Crisis, c.1250-1493 -- Page 383
VII: Renatio: Renaissances and Reformations, c.1450-1670 -- Page 469
VIII: Lumen: Enlightenment and Absolutism, c.1650-1789 -- Page 577
IX: Revolutio: A Continent in Turmoil, c.1770-1815 -- Page 675
X: Dynamo: Powerhouse of the World, 1815-1914 -- Page 759
XI: Tenebrae: Europe in Eclipse, 1914-1945 -- Page 897
XII: Divisa et Indivisa: Europe Divided and Undivided, 1945-1991 -- Page 1037
Notes to Chapters -- Page 1137
Notes to Capsules -- Page 1173
Appendix I List of Capsules -- Page 1203
Appendix II Notes on Plates and Acknowledgements -- Page 1205
Appendix III Historical Compendium -- Page 1213
Index -- Page 1337

"From the ice age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire history of Europe in one single volume." "The narrative zooms in from the distant focus of Chapter One, which explores the first five million years of the continent's development, to the close focus of the last two chapters, which cover the twentieth century at roughly one page per year." "In between, Norman Davies presents a vast canvas packed with startling detail and thoughtful analysis. Alongside Europe's better-known stories - human, national and international - he examines subjects often spurned or neglected - Europe's stateless nations, for example, as well as the nation-states and great powers, and the minority groups from heretics and lepers to Romanies, Jews, and Muslims. He reveals not only the rich diversity of Europe's past but also the numerous prisms through which it can be viewed."--BOOK JACKET.