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Europe : a history / Norman Davies.

By:

Davies, Norman, (1939 -)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 1996.Description: 1365 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

0195209125

Subject(s):

Europe -- -History

DDC classification:

940 DAV

LOC classification:

D57 .D28 1996

Abstract: "In the beginning," writes Norman Davies, "there was no Europe. All there was, for five million years, was a long, sinuous peninsula with no name, set like the figurehead of a ship on the prow of the world's largest land mass. To the west lay the ocean which no one had crossed. To the south lay two enclosed and interlinked seas, sprinkled with islands, inlets, and peninsulas of their own. To the north lay the great polar icecap, expanding and contracting across the ages like some monstrous, freezing jellyfish. To the east lay the land-bridge to the rest of the world, whence all peoples and all civilizations were to come." So begins Davies's magisterial Europe, a master work of history that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	940 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		014348

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [1137]-1172) and index.

"In the beginning," writes Norman Davies, "there was no Europe. All there was, for five million years, was a long, sinuous peninsula with no name, set like the figurehead of a ship on the prow of the world's largest land mass. To the west lay the ocean which no one had crossed. To the south lay two enclosed and interlinked seas, sprinkled with islands, inlets, and peninsulas of their own. To the north lay the great polar icecap, expanding and contracting across the ages like some monstrous, freezing jellyfish. To the east lay the land-bridge to the rest of the world, whence all peoples and all civilizations were to come." So begins Davies's magisterial Europe, a master work of history that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West, from prehistory to the present day.

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