{"product_id":"europe-roderick-beaton-9780241624500","title":"Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new history of the idea of Europe from Ancient Greece to the present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture? In Europe, award-winning historian Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before - as the history of an idea, and a collective identity.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 ferment of 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrappling with the multilayered identities that have always come with being European, Europe places the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2,500 years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roderick Beaton","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49290017341683,"sku":"9780241624500","price":69.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780241624500.jpg?v=1782244813","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/europe-roderick-beaton-9780241624500","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}