{"product_id":"the-mighty-continent-a-candid-history-of-modern-europe-9781967613007","title":"The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eA renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the dramatic tale of modern Europe's ascent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe\u003c\/i\u003e, Walter McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, provides readers with a sweeping historical narrative that takes in the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments in the major European nations from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, McDougall provides new insights on and interpretations of the Renaissance, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the Age of Exploration, the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions, the sources of modernism, the origins of World War I, the rise of totalitarianism, the advance of the European Union, the collapse of communism, and much else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive yet compact, objective yet unabashed, attuned to European failings yet refreshingly free from cloying moralism, \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Continent\u003c\/i\u003e is history as it used to be: exciting, uplifting, ironic, not infrequently tragic-and, above all, fair to the figures who made modern Europe so world-shakingly powerful and inescapably influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter A. McDougall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Creed \u0026amp; Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781967613007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter A. McDougall\u003c\/b\u003e is the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Amherst College and a Vietnam veteran, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974 and taught at UC Berkeley for thirteen years before coming to Penn, where he teaches U.S., European, and Asia\/Pacific diplomatic history. McDougall's books include \u003ci\u003e. . . the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), \u003ci\u003eLet the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific From Magellan to MacArthur\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFreedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThroes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How American Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest\u003c\/i\u003e. McDougall loves Chicago sports, Christian theology, and all genres of music from Bach to Bob Dylan. He and his \"Wonder Wife\" Jonna reside in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Walter A. McDougall \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47674872234141,"sku":"9781967613007","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7a210deb-dda6-4532-8b7f-6a8ca7b3349e.jpg?v=1771915209","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-mighty-continent-a-candid-history-of-modern-europe-9781967613007","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}