Book description
A fun, informative guide to Europe's past and present.
The history of Europe is rich, complex, vibrant, and at times
violent; it has influenced many countries throughout the world and has
itself been influenced by many countries. In the light-hearted
European History For Dummies, historian Sean Lang explores
the countries, conflicts, people, institutions, disasters, and
triumphs that have helped shape modern-day Europe, packing in tons of
facts alongside the fun. Chapters range from "Celts without
Kilts" and "What a Way to Run a Republic!" to "I
Capture Quite a Few Castles," "Reformation Ruckus," and
"The War to End All Wars."
Sean Lang, the author of British History For Dummies
(0-7645-7021-8), is also a history lecturer, examiner, and writer.
Sean Lang studied history at Oxford and has been
teaching it to school, college, and university students for the past
20 years. He is the author of British History For Dummies and
has written textbooks on nineteenth and twentieth century history. He
is Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association and co-editor of
Twentieth Century History Review. He writes regularly for the
Times Educational Supplement and for BBC History
Magazine and has written on history teaching for the Council of
Europe. Sean is currently based in Cambridge where he is Research
Fellow in History at Anglia Ruskin University.
