Europe

A magisterial history, written with great panache, that is both enlightening and deeply readable. A true tour de force -- Peter Frankopan
Europe is big history at its best. In this captivating romp across twenty-five centuries, from the Battle of Marathon to Putin’s war on Ukraine, Roderick Beaton offers inspiring and surprising answers to one of the great questions of our age: What is Europe? -- Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules—For Now
Praise for Roderick Beaton's previous book Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation * - *
The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for the rest of my life -- Victoria Hislop * The Week *
Beaton's new book - judicious, well-researched and commendably up-to-date - deserves to be the standard general history of modern Greece in English for years to come * Financial Times *
A perceptive analysis of Greece's financial crisis, the embers of which continue to threaten to derail the single currency project of the EU * Country Life *
This book explores the history, not of a Greece of romantic or philhellenic imagination, but the reality of the country as it has become today. The empathy it evokes for the survival of modern Greek statehood against a recurring pattern of often existential crisis is all the more compelling, subtle and above all human in its many-sidedness. Beaton's account instantly becomes the single most outstanding treatment of its subject -- Professor Robert Holland
A wonderfully engaging narrative... It is a superb achievement and to be recommended to anyone with even the most rudimentary interest -- Professor Kevin Featherstone