Civilization of Europe in the Renaissanc
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: November 7, 2005
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780007204632
First sentence: When in 1623 Francis Bacon threw off the phrase 'we Europeans', he was assuming that his readers knew where 'Europeans' were, who they were, and what, in spite of national differences, they shared.