The benefit of fragmentation is the central idea of Scheidel’s Escape from Rome, published in 2019. The idea was not new. But ...

Dr Tommaso Milani’s new book, Hendrik de Man and Social Democracy: The Idea of Planning in Western Europe, 1914-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) investigates the intellectual and political trajectory of ...

"An Introduction to the History of Western Europe" by James Harvey Robinson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics ...

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down the barbarous masses that populated the rest of the world, and one of the ...

The idea of Western civilization has always been an ambiguous dream among rulers and thinkers in Europe and North America. It sounds good, yet industrialization, the two world wars of the twentieth ...

The idea that man simply 're-found' himself during the European Renaissance ignores something quite fundamental. Jerry Brotton argues that important developments in trade and science, as well as ...