Globalizing Europe

Explores modern Europe's entanglements with the world, considering the continent as both an engine and a product of global transformations.

This groundbreaking volume explores modern Europe's entanglements with the world, considering the continent as an engine and a product of global transformations. Examining how global flows of peoples and ideas, goods, raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted the continent across centuries, it will reshape our understanding of European history.Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be integrated into global history. Taken together, its chapters will help reshape our understanding of the boundaries of Europe – and the field of modern European history.