num_pages: 432
description: From our twentieth-century perspective, we tend to think of the Europe of the past as a colonizer, a series of empires that conquered lands beyond their borders and forced European cultural values on other peoples. This provocative book shows that Europe in the Middle Ages was as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as it was later a colonizer.
language: English
title: The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
titlecomplete: The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
genres: Historical, Politics, Academic, Medieval History, European History, Nonfiction, School, World History, Medieval, History
ratings_count: 631
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Wolfson History Prize
publisher: Princeton University Press