From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer.
Format:
Pages:
432 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First PB Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0691037809
ISBN13:
9780691037806
kindle Asin:
B002XHNMX0
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950 - 1350
From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer.