Walter A. Mcdougall

The Mighty Continent (eBook, ePUB)

A Candid History of Modern Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Mighty Continent, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall recounts the truly dramatic tale of modern Europe's ascent. McDougall serves this history straight up, free of shame, apology, and the cloying moralism so characteristic of today's supposed scholarship. The result is a work that is not only expertly presented but thrilling. McDougall's sweeping narrative takes in the domestic political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments in the major European nations from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Along the way, he provides new insights on and interpretations of the Renaissance, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the Age of Exploration, the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions, the sources of modernism, the origins of World War I, the rise of totalitarianism, the advance of the European Union, the collapse of communism, and much else. Comprehensive yet compact, objective yet unabashed, The Mighty Continent is history as it used to be: exciting, uplifting, ironic, not infrequently tragic-and above all, fair to the figures who made modern Europe so world-shakingly powerful and inescapably influential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creed & Culture Books
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781967613052
• Artikelnr.: 74447690

Autorenporträt

Walter A. McDougall, seventy-eight, holds a chair in International Relations and still teaches full-time at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Amherst College and a Vietnam veteran, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974 and taught at U.C. Berkeley for thirteen years before coming to Penn, where he teaches U.S., European, and Asia/Pacific diplomatic history. McDougall's books include . . . the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (winner of the Pulitzer Prize); Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific From Magellan to MacArthur; Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828, Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877, and The Tragedy of U.S. Diplomacy: How American Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest. McDougall loves Chicago sports, Christian theology, and all genres of music from Bach to Bob Dylan. He and his "Wonder Wife" Jonna reside in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.