This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of ...

Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history. Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skillfully balances ...

Schuman, seen here in 1947, helped found the group that was the predecessor of the European Union Pope Francis has put French statesman Robert Schuman, one of the founders of modern Europe ...

Former European Commission President Jacques Delors - described as the architect of the modern EU - has died aged 98, his daughter says. He helped create the single market allowing the free ...