The Shape of European History

By William H. McNeill

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195018079
• ISBN13: 9780195018073
• Release Date: May 1974
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Slim, perfectly readable, gem by W.H. McNeill.

This spare little book is a sweeping survey of the "big picture" of about three millenia of European history. The themes are so wide that it verges on a natural history of the humans that have occupied Europe over this period. But broad-stroked sketches, in the hands of a master, can reveal more than they obscure, can be works of great beauty, and can start one thinking about the essentials that emerge from the welter of detail.