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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345993803321

Titolo

The boundaries of Europe : from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonisation / / edited by Pietro Rossi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-042072-4

3-11-042083-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Discourses on intellectual Europe, , 2364-2947 ; ; volume 1

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

Territory, National - Europe

Geopolitics - Europe - History

Europe Boundaries History

Europe Civilization

Europe History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Premessa (Foreword) / Pietro Rossi -- Mediterraneo da "mare nostrum" a frontiera tra civilta (The Mediterranean from "mare nostrum" to frontier between civilisations) / Arnaldo Marcone -- L'Europa e l'Islam : incontri e scontri (Europe and Islam : encounters and confrontations) / Franco Cardini -- The conquest of the north / Bo Strath -- Die Ausdehnung nach Osten (The expansion towards the East) / Manfred Hildermeier -- Europa und das osmanische Reich (Europe and the Ottoman Empire) / Markus Koller -- La russia tra europa e asia (Russia between Europe and Asia) / Alberto Masoero -- Europe and the Atlantic / John H. Elliott -- L'europeizzazione del mondo e il suo declino (The Europeanisation of the world : its rise and decline) / Massimo L. Salvadori.

Sommario/riassunto

"Europe's boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. In this context, this volume outlines the transformation of Europe's boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization and explores, among other aspects, the confrontation of Christian Europe with Islam and the



changing role of the Mediterranean from 'mare nostrum' to a frontier between nations"--