The Modern and Contemporary European History is a book characterized by its wise design, which is based on capturing the "big picture" and historical oversight.
At the same time, however, through skillful intellectual maneuvers and concise yet well-supported and usually multifaceted references, it highlights the sequence of significant causal factors and defining historical events from the entrance into modernity to the advent of post-modernity. Thus, it contributes to the cultivation of substantial historical education.
These characteristics make it an exceptional learning tool. The primary audience for Stuart T. Miller's book is students studying History. In other words, it is a work of initiation into historical research and writing.
It is a panorama of historical processes that contextualizes and codifies a wide array of events at the same time. At the same time, however, the book succeeds in establishing a methodological framework for acquiring critically important historical skills, without which critical reflection on the past and understanding its complex relationship with the present and future is impossible.
This framework is constructed through the presentation, comparative-contrastive approach, and critical commentary on selected historical sources, both textual and visual, which, with the appropriate questions, create the conditions for a "History workshop."
Manufacturer
- Author
- Stuart T. Miller
- Publisher
- Gutenberg
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- Academic History
- Theme
- History of Europe
- Time Period
- Modern History (1500-1945)
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 895
- Release Date
- 28/02/2018
- Publication Date
- 2018
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789600119251
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