# Great cultural history Europe book

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**Created:** [April 21, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089 "2003-04-21T18:22:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089/1 "2003-04-21T18:22:56Z")

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Wish I could remember the name or author, though.

Help me out here folks. It was written by a prestigious academci author and certainly published no more than five years ago.

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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089/2 "2003-04-21T18:27:42Z")

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That thread title should be “Great cultural history **of** Europe.”

Must remember to Preview Reply. Must remember to Preview Reply. Must remember to Preview Reply.

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089/3 "2003-04-21T20:45:44Z")

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Didn’t find it in the University Library. I did find _Europe : a cultural history_ by Peter Rietbergen, London : Routledge 1998.  
Is that it?

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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089/4 "2003-04-23T18:01:24Z")

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Thanks, **TTT** , but I don’t think so. I recall now that this book maybe had an entire chapter devoted to 15th or 16th century Italian city-states like Venice and Florence.

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089/5 "2003-04-23T18:49:00Z")

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Damn, and I thought I could push a book by a Dutch professor.

But seriously, could you give a bit more information? There are great books by Aries, Le Goff, Braudel. There are also books by people like Schama. Do you know the nationality of the author? And do you remember the size (number of pages), the period covered?

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**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089/6 "2003-04-23T19:12:54Z")

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Sounds like Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence. Pretty good book.

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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-cultural-history-europe-book/170089/7 "2003-04-25T14:16:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by CyberPundit \*  
> \*\*Sounds like Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence. Pretty good book. \*\*

YES! That’s it! Thank you, **CyberPundit**. And you too, **TTT** , for the effort.