Lloyd Kramer was born in Maryville, Tennessee, and graduated from Maryville College. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1983. Before entering Cornell, he was a teacher in Hong Kong and he traveled widely in Asia. After completing his graduate studies, he taught at Stanford University and Northwestern University. Since 1986 he has been a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is currently a professor of history and the director of Carolina Public Humanities- a program that serves K-12 educators and other communities outside the university. He has served two terms as chair of his department and received two awards for distinguished undergraduate teaching. His writings include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830- 1848 (1988); Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), which won the Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; and Nationalism in Europe and America: Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775 (2011). He has also co-edited several books, including a collection of essays on historical education in America and A Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002). He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; and he served as president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Kramer/Palmer: A History of Europe in the Modern World, 12e

List of Chapter Illustrations
List of Chronologies, Historical Documents, Historical Interpretations and Debates, Maps, Charts, and Tables
Preface
Geography, History, and the Modern World

CHAPTER 1: The Rise of Europe
CHAPTER 2: The Upheaval in Western Christendom, 1300 - 1560
CHAPTER 3: The Atlantic World, Commerce, and Wars of Religion, 1560 - 1648
CHAPTER 4: The Growing Power of Western Europe, 1640 - 1715
CHAPTER 5: The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648 - 1740
CHAPTER 6: The Scientific View of the World
CHAPTER 7: The Global Struggle for Wealth and Empire
CHAPTER 8: The Age of Enlightenment
CHAPTER 9: The French Revolution
CHAPTER 10: Napoleonic Europe
CHAPTER 11: Industries, Ideas, and the Struggle for Reform, 1815 - 1848
CHAPTER 12: Revolutions and the Reimposition of Order, 1848 - 1870
CHAPTER 13: The Consolidation of Large Nation-States, 1859 - 1871
CHAPTER 14: Europe's Economic and Political Ascendancy, 1871 - 1914
CHAPTER 15: European Society and Culture, 1871 - 1914
CHAPTER 16: Europe's Colonial Empires and Global Dominance, 1871 - 1914
CHAPTER 17: The First World War
CHAPTER 18: The Russian Revolution and the Emergence of the Soviet Union
CHAPTER 19: Democracy, Anti-Imperialism, and the Economic Crisis after the First World War
CHAPTER 20: Democracy and Dictatorship in the 1930s
CHAPTER 21: The Second World War
CHAPTER 22: The Cold War and Reconstruction after the Second World War
CHAPTER 23: Decolonization and the Breakup of the European Empires
CHAPTER 24: Coexistence, Confrontation, and the New European Economy
CHAPTER 25: The International Revolt against Soviet Communism
CHAPTER 26: Europe and the Changing Modern World

Appendix Rulers and Regimes
Index
Suggestions for Further Reading