A History of Europe (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: J. M. Roberts
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: Approximately 1000 -1996
- Setting: Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Europe or Europeans, Science or scientists, Agriculture, Imperialism, Industrialization
- Locales: Europe
“To describe the past is always to oversimplify it and general history above all is open to adverse criticism on this count.” Thus, J. M. Roberts acknowledges a central difficulty encountered in writing A History of Europe: How should roughly three thousand years of human affairs on a continent roughly the size of the modern United States be described in just under six hundred pages? What events can be excluded? How much detail is necessary for illustrative purposes? How can sequences of events be explained? In short, how should Europe’s history be “oversimplified”...
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