What is European History?
Historians grapple with a difficult subject.
Marc Ferro
Obviously if this question had been asked fifty years ago it would have had only one meaning. European history, identical with the history of Europe, was that of its peoples and their cultures and limited, or not, to the lands that they occupied. It would naturally have included the societies from which those present civilisations sprang, namely the Phoenicians, the Hebrews, the Egyptians or whoever.
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