{"product_id":"europe-a-new-history","title":"Europe: A New History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A true tour de force.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Frankopan, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silk Roads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before—as the history of an idea, and a collective identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, “Europe” has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe’s major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual fermentof the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the uncertainties of the present. Throughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrappling with the multilayered identities that have always come with being European, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e places the Europe of today in along arc of history stretching back more than 2,500 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucky's Books and Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026818678915,"sku":"9781541603806","price":46.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/3795\/6483\/files\/1_25900844-1845-4edb-919d-6a9b050dc348.jpg?v=1777161661","url":"https:\/\/luckys.ca\/products\/europe-a-new-history","provider":"Lucky's Books and Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}