Summary
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: The Peoples of Europe
The Peoples of Europe, a book originally published by "The Times" of London, is an overview of 105 European nations and ethnic groups, from the Atlantic edges - to the Eurocaucasian circle. It provides the modern reader with basic information about the peoples of Europe existing today, regardless of their state-legal framework, i.e. regardless of whether they are politically sovereign or not, whether they have their own national state or not. Thus, Italians, for example, are not treated as Italians, but as Sardinians, Ligurians, Veneto-Furlians, Central Italians, Sicilians, etc.
In each unit, the fundamental aspects of "European tribes" are treated: history, language, religion, politics, crafts, trade and industry, customs and traditions, social structures, legal systems, wars and revolutions.
Appendixes are written by experts in individual fields - academic specialists or journalists, and are distributed in 12 chapters according to the territorial principle.
An overview of the ethnic picture of the Old Continent, among other things, helps us to understand the turbulent course of the creation of European unity and the causes of wars on European soil.
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