How long does it take to read A History of Modern Europe?
A History of Modern Europe by John Merriman takes about 26 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 26 hours 6 minutes
A long haul
First published 1996. 1,424 pages, about 391,600 words.
53 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 43 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 26 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 16 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Why a new history of modern Europe? The collapse of Communism in 1989- 1990 and the breakup of the Soviet Union have redrawn the map of Central and Eastern Europe. A reconfigured Europe calls for a new history. This survey of modern European history explores the roots of the economic and political problems that continue to beset Western and Eastern Europe. For example, it shows how the simmering ethnic tensions that burst into bloody civil war in Bosnia after the disintegration of Yugoslavia echoed the quarrels that eroded the stately Habsburg monarchy a century earlier. To convey an understanding of the complex tensions that still exist in Europe, this survey offers balanced coverage of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as of the West. I have adopted a narrative framework with the goals of both telling a story and analyzing the central themes of the European experience. Each chapter of A History of Modern Europe can be read as part of a larger, interconnected story. Moreover, this book stresses the dynamics of economic, social, and political change. - Preface.
Subjects: History, Sociaal-economische geschiedenis, Cultuurgeschiedenis, Politieke geschiedenis, Europe, history, Europehistory
