The Making of Europe, Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change: 950-1350.

Contemporary Review | November 1, 1993| | Copyright

This is the story - over 400 years - of the original Europe and its expansion. It is also a searching analysis based on extremely thorough research, listed in over one hundred pages. What strikes one almost at once is that this Europe resembles in its territories the original Common Market countries. The forces, political, religious, economic, that started the 'European' expansion were those that formed the core of the empire of Charlemagne, Northern Italy, Flanders, the Rhine Valley, Northern France. And the original leaders of the Common Market - Adenauer of West Germany, ...

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