User talk:Qexigator/Books/Rome, 800 - Lisbon, 2009

The period to which the contents of the articles collected for this book refer is given in the title the particular theme is indicated by the sub-title
 * Rome, 800 - Lisbon, 2009;
 * Landfrieden: twelve progressive centuries among the dynasties and peoples of continental Europe.

The period, from the eighth century to the present, provides a context for what may be emerging in connection with the First World War centenary, which starts in 2014 and will last until 2018. "Countries which are planning official commemorations include Australia, New Zealand, France, the UK and Turkey."

The articles are arranged in time sequence, letting the one particular theme be traced from treaty to treaty during those twelve centuries: the emergence of the European Union of today - including the Council of Europe, the Flag of Europe, the Erasmus Programme and the European Central Bank - in the wake of the Weimar Republic and the de facto and presumed ending of the German Reich.

The participation in the conflict of 1914-1918 of peoples and countries beyond continental Europe and the British Isles was a consequence of the trans-Atlantic and southern ocean colonisations, following the "Age of Discovery" which had mainly been undertaken to begin with for the rival monarchies of Portugal and Spain (the parties to the Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494), and soon after by voyagers and settlers from some of the European countries which were successors to the ninth century Carolingian territories, and from the British Isles. It follows that the earlier histories of countries beyond continental Europe and the British Isles - from Asia and the lands and islands of Asia's south and east, to the Carribbean and the Americas - are not irrelevant or without importance but are outside the main theme of this book.

Among images available for front cover: "Religion in the Holy Roman Empire on the eve of the Thirty Years' War" Qexigator (talk) 09:45, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
 * PediaPress: Book size about 611 pages. Total price, delivered to US: $ 34.45; to UK £ 28.56; to France or Germany: 34.45 €