An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe, first published in 1902 and 1903, is the college textbook in which James Harvey Robinson of Columbia University tried to put social and intellectual life at the center of history. It begins with Rome before the barbarian invasions and moves through the rise of the papacy, the monks, Charlemagne, feudalism, the medieval kingdoms, the struggle of popes and emperors, the crusades and the medieval church, then the Renaissance, the Protestant Revolt and the Catholic Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the age of Louis XIV, the French Revolution, Napoleon and the unification of Italy and Germany, ending with the Europe of the early twentieth century. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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