Details:
- author: Jeremy Black
- full title: A History of Europe - From Pre-History to the 21st Century
- narrator: Richard Trinde
- genre: nonfiction, history
- topics: #historyofeurope
- publisher: Arcturus Digital Audio
- publish date: 12 Dec 2023
- timing: 7:29:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
Europe is a relatively new continent, one shaped by developments over the last 20,000 years. Before that, it has a long geological history shown by strata beginning with the Pre-Cambrian period, which began some 4.6 billion years ago. At various periods, there was land or sea cover, very different temperatures and vegetation, and more or less geological activity in the shape of volcanoes. Across geological time Europe was very much affected by the continental drift of tectonic plates that had occurred ever since the crust of the Earth cooled.My Thoughts:
With nonfiction (audio)books, the contentment and rating always depend on what you expect in the first place. Don’t expect an extensive and detailed history of Europe. With about 7 hours of audio narration, you should expect this to be a brief history of Europe. This audiobook is suitable for those who know (almost) nothing about the topic or want to revise some key moments from history.
Overall, I think A History of Europe is an excellent brief presentation of Europe’s history.
About the Author:
Professor Jeremy Black MBE is an English historian and a Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of over 100 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age".
Black graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge with a starred first, and then undertook postgraduate work at St John's and Merton Colleges, Oxford. He taught at Durham University for 16 years from 1980 to 1996, firstly as a lecturer and then as a Professor. In 1996 he moved to Exeter University where he took up the post of Professor of History. He has lectured extensively in Australasia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the U.S..
He was editor of Archives, the journal of the British Records Association, from 1989 to 2005. He has served on the Council of the British Records Association (1989–2005); the Council of the Royal Historical Society (1993–1996 and 1997–2000); and the Council of the List and Index Society (from 1997). He has sat on the editorial boards of History Today, International History Review, Journal of Military History, Media History and the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute (now the RUSI Journal). He is an advisory fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas.
He was awarded an MBE in 2000 for services to stamp design, as advisor to the Royal Mail from 1997.
About the Narrator:
Richard Trinde is an experienced and award-winning actor, narrator, and musician with a degree in German Literature, Richard trained at London’s prestigious Poor School and has worked on stage, screen, and microphone for nearly 30 years. Theatre work has ranged from classical leading roles directed by Trevor Nunn, to actor-musician pantomime, and most things in-between. On screen he has been a Harry Potter movie villain, fought alongside Doctor Who, smouldered as various soap-opera love-interests, and appeared in over 50 TV commercials. He has been the leading man in London’s West End production of Mamma Mia The Musical for 9 years. With an authoritative, fluent and expressive style, his audiobook credits include Earphones Award-winning history, Costa Prize literary fiction, scientific textbooks, biography and sci-fi for many major publishing houses.
