Research Catalog

Title

Europe : a cultural history / Peter Rietbergen.

Author

Rietbergen, P. J. A. N.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]

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Details

Description

xlviii, 618 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

""Discusses the cultural history of Europe from prehistory to the modern day. Includes illustrations, maps and case studies"--Provided by publisher"--

Subjects

• Europe
• History
• HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
• Europa
• Europe > Civilization
• Cultuurgeschiedenis
• HISTORY / General
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
• Kultur
• Europe > History
• Civilization
• Geschiedenis (vorm)

Genre/Form

• History.
• Geschiedenis (vorm)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Europe -- and Europeanness? -- Europe: old Europe, new Europe, old borders, new borders -- Europe: ideas -- Europe: realities -- Europe: on the problems of writing its (cultural) history -- On choices: the scope and structure of this book -- On the use of this book -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Before 'Europe': towards an agricultural and sedentary society -- Beginnings in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, or the non-European origins of European culture -- The advent of agriculture, temple and state -- Invasion, conquest and change: the first wave -- Babylon, The Seventeenth Century BC: The Law Code Of Hammurapi -- Beginnings in Europe: after the last Ice Age -- Invasion, conquest and change: the second wave -- A 'marginal' culture? Religion and state formation in Israel -- A 'marginal' culture? Trade and communication in Phoenicia -- A 'marginal' culture? Democracy and its limitations in Greece -- A 'marginal' culture? Tribal society in Celtic Europe -- The 'birth of Europe' and the Greek 'world-view', or how to define one's own culture -- The world of Alexander the Great -- Dossier: The human body -- 2. Rome and its empire: the effects and limits of cultural integration -- Between the Alps and the Mediterranean, between the Etruscan and the Greek worlds: the expansion of the early Romans -- From an informal to a formal empire -- Rome, The Second Century Ad: A Legal System, A Legal Society -- The Roman Contribution -- Roman culture -- The Roman Empire and the worlds beyond -- Dossier: The rule of law -- 3. An empire lost -- an empire won? Christianity and the Roman Empire -- Developments within the Jewish world: the genesis of Christianity -- From Jews -- and Gentiles -- to Christians: the role of Jesus of Nazareth and his followers -- Religions in the Roman Empire -- A sect of 'hopeless outlaws' -- Carthage, AD 180: Arguments Against And For The Religion Of The Christians -- Towards an empire Roman as well as Christian -- Rome and its neighbours in the fourth and fifth centuries AD: 'decline and fall'? The division and loss of the political empire -- the survival of the cultural empire -- Empire and language -- Dossier: Charity and/or solidarity -- 4. Towards one religion for all -- The Christian world-view: the survival of classical culture within the context of Christianity and Europe -- Mount Sinai, AD 547: Kosmas Explains The Christian Cosmography -- One religion for all: the fusion of Christianity and Europe -- The rise of a new empire: Frankish statecraft and Christian arguments -- Culture and cohesion: the role of ideology and education in the shaping of Carolingian Europe, or the 'First Renaissance'? -- The impact of monasteries -- Dossier: Charlemagne: the Father of Europe? -- 5. Three worlds around the Inner Sea: western Christendom, eastern Christendom and Islam -- Confrontation and contact from the sixth century onwards -- The world of the Prophet: Islam -- God's kingdom among men: orthodox Christendom -- A far corner of the earth: Roman, Catholic Christendom -- The Crusades: western Christendom versus Islam and eastern Christendom -- Clermont, 26 November 1095: Pope Urban II Calls For A Crusade -- Dossier: Islam in Europe -- 6. One world, many traditions: elite culture and popular cultures: cosmopolitan norms and regional variations -- Europe's 'feudal' polities -- The Church and the early states -- Economic and technological change and the early states -- Stronger states -- stronger rulers? -- The towns and the early states -- A Christian world or a world of Christian nations? -- Elite culture and popular cultures: cosmopolitan norms and regional variations -- London, AD 1378: Geoffrey Chaucer Describes His World -- The importance of the universities -- Dossier: Democracy? -- Interlude: the worlds of Europe, c.1400-1800 -- A world of villages -- A world of towns -- Two worlds? -- 7. A new society: Europe's changing views of man -- The survival of classical culture and the beginnings of Humanism -- The loss of Byzantium -- the gain of Europe: the further development of Humanism in Italy -- From Humanism to the Renaissance in Italy -- Rome, AD 1538: Michelangelo Analyses Italian Art -- Humanism and the Renaissance: Italy and beyond -- Dossier: European music -- 8. A new society: Europe as a wider world -- Economic and technological change and the definitive formation of the 'modern' state -- From manuscript to typescript -- Gunpowder and compass -- The Hague, Ad 1625: Hugo Grotius Expounds 'The Law Of Nations' -- Church and State: the break-up of religious unity -- Printing, reading and the schools: education for the masses? -- Unity and diversity: printing as a cultural revolution -- Europe and its frontiers: nation-feeling and cultural self-definition -- Dossier: Capitalism -- 9. A new society: Europe and the wider world since the fifteenth century -- The 'old' world and the 'older' world -- The 'old' world and the 'new' -- The 'Columbian exchange' -- Europe, The Early Sixteenth Century: Opinions On The Conquest Of America And Its Consequences -- Images of America and mirrors of Europe -- Further cultural consequences of European expansion -- Dossier: Europe's wider world -- 10. A new society: migration, travel and the diffusion and integration of culture in Europe -- Migration, travel and culture -- Non-voluntary travel: the cultural significance of migrations -- Three types of cultural travel -- Rome, Winter 1644-5: John Evelyn Visits The Eternal City -- The practice of travel -- To travel or not to travel? -- Travel as an element in growing cosmopolitanism and cultural integration -- Dossier: The Church of Rome -- 11. A new society: the 'Republic of Letters' as a virtual and virtuous world against a divided world -- The Republic of Letters: a quest for harmony -- The Republic of Letters and the ideal of tolerance: theory and practice -- Chateau Montaigne, Near Bordeaux, Ad 1580: Michel De Montaigne On Europe And 'The Other' -- The Republic of Letters and its enemies: national cultural policies, or the political uses of culture -- The Republic of Letters, or how to communicate in an invisible institution -- The Republic of Letters and the Intertraffic of the mind': three examples -- Dossier: Paradise -- 12. A new society: from Humanism to the Enlightenment -- Humanism and empiricism between 'ratio' and 'revelatio' -- From (scientific) empiricism to new visions of man and society -- Europe, The Early Seventeenth Century: Views On The Scientific Method Of Francis Bacon And Renee Descartes -- From Humanism to Enlightenment: a long dawn -- Enlightenment and Romanticism: poles apart? -- Dossier: Cosmos, nature, man -- 13. Europe's revolutions: freedom and consumption for all? -- Material culture and conspicuous consumption: Europe's process of consumer change until the end of the eighteenth century -- Production and reproduction: a process of economic and demographic change until the end of the eighteenth century -- A process of social and cultural change: the convergence of elites until the end of the eighteenth century -- Two 'revolutions': one political, one economic, both cultural -- Paris, 27 August 1789: The Cultural Importance Of The 'Declaration Des Droits De L'homme Et Du Citoyen' -- Urban, industrial culture: the regulation and consumption of time -- Dossier: Machines that alter(ed) the world -- 14. Progress and its discontents: nationalism, economic growth and the question of cultural certainties -- The revolutions and their aftermath -- Elements of nationalism: the political culture of the nineteenth century -- New elites, new mechanisms of cultural diffusion, new manifestations of culture -- Basle, The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century: Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) Criticizes Contemporary Culture -- Money and time, goods and leisure: towards a consumer culture -- Dossier: War and Peace -- 15. Europe and the other worlds -- Europe and its expanding world -- Europe and Latin America: a severed relationship? -- The 'old' world and the 'new': North America as a vision of freedom -- Capitalism and consumerism: freedom or slavery, progress or decadence? -- New York, 1909: Herbert Croly (1869-1930) Interprets 'The Promise Of American Life' -- Europe and 'America': a cultural symbiosis, or the growth of the 'western world' -- To the 'heart of darkness': Europe and Africa -- The 'old' world and the 'older' world -- Dossier: Europe and humankind -- 16. The 'Decline of the Occident' -- the loss of a dream? From the nineteenth to the twentieth century -- The sciences: positivism and increasing relativism -- Berlin, 1877: Heinrich Stephan Rejoices In The First German Telephone Service -- Europe in hiding, Europe surviving -- A growing sense of fin de siecle: between pessimism and optimism -- A world between wars -- Dossier: Who am I? -- 17. Towards a new Europe? -- Science, culture and society -- After the Second World War: deconstruction and reconstruction -- A culture of time versus money -- From 'familyman' to 'salaryman' -- from group identity to individual identity? -- Dimensions of identity -- culture as communication: towards an 'anonymous mass culture'? -- Europe Since The 1960s: Popular Music -- High Culture? -- Dossier: Europe and Europeanness in the twenty-first century.

Call Number

JFE 15-8169

ISBN

• 9780415663571 (hardback)
• 0415663571 (hardback)
• 9780415663618 (paperback)
• 041566361X (paperback)
• 9781315748511 (ebook)
• 1315748517 (ebook)
• 0415172292
• 9780415172295
• 1134692684
• 9781134692682
• 1134692692
• 9781134692699
• 1134692668
• 9781134692668
• 1134692641
• 9781134692644
• 113469265X
• 9781134692651
• 1317606299
• 9781317606291

LCCN

2014023003

OCLC

707965851

Author

Rietbergen, P. J. A. N.

Title

Europe : a cultural history / Peter Rietbergen.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]

Edition

Third, revised and augmented edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-8169