The history of Europe is described in detail and with erudition, though the material will be accessible to high school students as well as undergraduates and the popular reader. Each section begins with a map and timeline and is illustrated with good quality color reproductions. Beginning with the Greeks and continuing through the creation of the EU, attention is paid to major as well as marginal trends and figures in philosophy, art, architecture, popular culture, religion, and economics. Of the 11 historians who contributed to this history, one teaches in the US, the rest, including the editor, are in the UK.