BOOK: David MOTADEL (ed.), Globalizing Europe. A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), ISBN 9781009262873, € 31,5

 

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Abstract:

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.

Table of contents:

1. Global Europe David Motadel
2. Global Conjunctures and the Remaking of European Political History Sebastian Conrad
3. Global Origins of the Old World Economy Sven Beckert
4. European Intellectual History after the Global Turn Samuel Moyn
5. Religion and the Global History of Europe Abigal Green
6. European Social History and the Global Turn Richard Drayton
7. Europe's Place in Global Environmental History J. R. McNeill
8. Global Turns in European History and the History of Consumption Maxine Berg
9. Global Material Culture in Early Modern and Modern Europe Anne Gerritsen
10. Migration and European History's Global Turn Elizabeth Buettner
11. 'Race' in the Global History of Europe Priya Satia
12. Globalising European Gender History Lucy Delap
13. Globalizing Europe's Musical Past Kira Thurman
14. Global Histories of European Art Caroline van Eck
15. Globalizing European Military History Michelle Moyd
16. Deglobalizing the Global History of Europe Stephen W. Sawyer
Afterword: Global Histories of Modern Europe Richard J. Evans.

On the editor:

David Motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Islam and Nazi Germany's War (2014), which was awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, and, as editor, Islam and the European Empires (2014). In 2018, he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History.

Read more here (DOI  10.1017/9781009262873).