The Emergence of the Modern European World: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries

"Professor Fox has fashioned a book that is virtually unique in its clear narrative approach to the past three hundred years. It provides an essential foundation for people at any level in higher education who want a thoughtful overview of the role of the nation state in the making of the modern world." Jozef W. Konvitz, Michigan State University

"One of the master scholar teachers of our generation. In The Emergence of the Modern European World he has distilled a lifetime of study and thinking about European history. He covers all major issues from the eighteenth century to the present with a felicitous combination of balance and dynamism." Stephen A. Schuker, Brandeis University