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WORK TITLE: Europa
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BIRTHDATE: 5/17/1970
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CITY: London
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COUNTRY: United Kingdom
NATIONALITY: Spanish
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HEADING: Crespo MacLennan, Julio, 1970-
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Born May 17, 1970, in Madrid, Spain.
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Author and academic; director, Cervantes Institute, London, England. Formerly Santander Iberian and European Studies Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford; Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor, Tufts University and Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Boston, MA.
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Julio Crespo MacLennan has had a long career in academia; he holds the position of director of the Cervantes Institute in London. In addition, “he has been Santander Iberian and European Studies Fellow at St. Antony’s College Oxford,” explained the contributor of a biographical blurb to the Viney Shaw Agency‘s website, and he has held the post of Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor at both Tufts University and the Fletcher School of Diplomacy, both in the United States. He is the author of Spain and the Process of European Integration, 1957-1985, España en Europa, 1945-2000: del ostracismo a la modernidad, Guerra civil (1936-1939): El vaivén de la memoria, Forjadores de Europa: grandes europeístas y euroescépticos del siglo XX, Del ocaso de las potencias europeas al auge de la Europa global: El proceso de integración europea, 1950-2007, Imperios: auge y declive de Europa en el mundo, 1492-2012, and Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World.
In Europa, MacLennan offers a synthesis of global history through the lens of European civilization following the Renaissance. “The Renaissance … introduced decisive changes in what was ‘a relatively backward, inward-looking civilization,'” reported a Kirkus Reviews contributor, quoting from MacLennan’s work. “‘The market economy, the state, and the knowledge-based society’ propelled Europe ‘to take the lead over all other civilizations.’” Europa, said a Publishers Weekly reviewer, “is chock-full of interesting facts and observations–who knew, for example, that the Philippines was perhaps the first country to abolish slavery, in 1574?”
Europa is designed as a popular history rather than as a textbook. “This book,” MacLennan explained in her introduction to Europa, “is written for readers from all walks of life and from any part of the world; all of you who have a passion for history, an infinite curiosity, and an eagerness to acquire knowledge, not to be confused with information, which is easily accessible in the Internet era. It will be particularly relevant to those who have asked questions like: What has Europe done for us? What historical tends explain the present? … why [did] Europe dominate the world from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century …, [and] what were the consequences of this era of hegemony.” “What is the final outcome of more than four hundred years of European hegemony in the world?” the author asked in his conclusion to the introduction to Europa. “What is the most important legacy in Europe? Can the present global world be understood without referring to Europe? Does Europe have a relevant mission in the world of the twenty-first century? The reader will find the answers to these great questions at the end of this book, and after the journey that we shall make in these pages through five of the most fascinating centuries in universal history.” “Even readers resistant to MacLennan’s Eurocentric perspective,” concluded Bryce Christensen in Booklist, “will learn much here about a singularly dynamic continent.”
BIOCRIT
BOOKS
MacLennan, Julio Crespo, Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World, Pegasus Books (New York, NY), 2018.
PERIODICALS
Booklist, June 1, 2018, Bryce Christensen, review of Europa.
Kirkus Reviews, May 6, 2018, review of Europa.
Publishers Weekly, May 14, 2018, review of Europa, p. 47.
ONLINE
Pegasus Books, http://pegasusbooks.com/ (October 24, 2018), author profile.
Viney Shaw Agency, http://www.thevineyagency.com/ (October 24, 2018), author profile.
Julio MacLennan
Julio MacLennan has been Santander Iberian and European Studies Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor at Tufts University and Fletcher School of Diplomacy in Boston, among other academic posts in the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain. He is currently the Director of the Cervantes Institute in London.
JULIO MACLENNAN
David Ambrose
Julio MacLennan has followed an academic career mainly based in Oxford University. He has been Santander Iberian and European Studies Fellow at St. Antony’s College Oxford, and Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor at Tufts University and Fletcher School of Diplomacy in Boston, among other academic posts in the USA, UK and Spain.
Empires, his comparative history of European imperial expansion, was published in Spain in 2013 by Galaxia Gutenberg to critical acclaim. He lives in London.
His Europa – How Europe Shaped the Modern World will be published by Pegasus in North America in 2018.
Praise for Empires -The Rise and Fall of Europe Galaxia Gutenberg, Spain (2012).
‘This splendid book constitutes an impeccable analysis of all the good parts of Europe’s imperial expansion, which were many as well as the bad parts, which were fewer than what has often been proclaimed … . It is written by a great European who brilliantly evokes the European golden age and the long-term consequences of Europe’s imperial policies. Manuel Lucena, ABC.
Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern
World
Publishers Weekly.
265.20 (May 14, 2018): p47.
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Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
Julio Crespo MacLennan. Pegasus, $27.95
(336p) ISBN 978-1-68177-756-6
MacLennan, director of the Cervantes Institute in London and a history professor at Oxford and Tufts
universities, has written less a brief history of Europe than a study of the continent's outsized political,
socioeconomic, and intellectual influence on the rest of the world. Thus, for example, the events of the
revolutions of 1848 are skimmed over; MacLennan is more interested in, and writes well about, the
ideological changes they brought to Europe's governments: "equality of men as a human rights principle"
and that "government must be an expression of the people's will." MacLennan's book is chock-full of
interesting facts and observations--who knew, for example, that the Philippines was perhaps the first
country to abolish slavery, in 1574?--yet is a bit dry, lacking colorful quotes and anecdotes. He favors
western European history; the Hapsburg Empire, Poland, and Russia are somewhat neglected, except in a
fascinating section on the Russian empire's growth. In trying to cover so much, MacLennan glosses over
some important matters, as when he dispatches existentialism, post-WWII critics of Marxism, and the
antinuclear movement in a single paragraph. He also makes some glaring mistakes (George Orwell's
"Shooting an Elephant" was an essay, not a novel), and his assertion that the E.U.'s "model of supranational
political and economic integration ... will have universal appeal" is questionable in light of, for example,
Brexit. This is an idiosyncratic but fascinating look at role Europe plays on the world stage. Agent: Charlie
Viney, Viney Shaw Agency. (July)
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"Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World." Publishers Weekly, 14 May 2018, p. 47. General
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EUROPA
How Europe Shaped the Modern World
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KIRKUS REVIEW
How European culture has shaped the world for the past 500 years.
MacLennan (Spain and the Process of European Integration, 1957-85, 2001, etc.), the director of the Cervantes Institute in London, worries that the European Union is being unfairly attacked and European unification eroded by revivals of nationalism. To counter those forces, he offers a sweeping history from the 16th century to the present, making a compelling case for European influence throughout the world. Aimed at readers who may wonder, “what has Europe done for us?” the author surveys Europe’s achievements, synthesizing histories of different nations as well as overviews by historians such as Norman Davies, Niall Ferguson, and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. The Renaissance, writes MacLennan, introduced decisive changes in what was “a relatively backward, inward-looking civilization.” “The market economy, the state, and the knowledge-based society” propelled Europe “to take the lead over all other civilizations.” Exploration was spurred by improved sailing technology and daring adventurers. With Columbus’ discovery of America, Spain transformed itself into a global empire, with Portugal, France, and Britain following in overseas expansion, establishment of trade networks, and economic development between Europe and the rest of the world. The age of empire was also the age of economic, social, and political revolutions. The French Revolution, MacLennan asserts, proved transformative for the Western world by promoting equality rather than “a closed elite that monopolized power” and wealth. As European nations extended into Asia, the clash between East and West resulted in cohabitation in India, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia; Westernization of Japan; but resistance by the Chinese, who increasingly looked inward. MacLennan traces the influence of European culture through immigration, colonialism in Africa, and intellectual migration and exile after the world wars. He contrasts the American dream of individual accumulation of wealth with the European dream of a socially and economically harmonious society, underscored by the idea of soft power, “the ability to shape the behavior of others through appeal and attraction.”
A well-supported, wide-ranging history of the Western world.
Pub Date: July 4th, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-68177-756-6
Page count: 480pp
Publisher: Pegasus
Review Posted Online: May 6th, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1st, 2018
Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World.
MacLennan, Julio Crespo (author).
July 2018. 496p. Pegasus, hardcover, $27.95 (9781681777566). 940.
REVIEW.
First published June 1, 2018 (Booklist).
Why, as the U.S. wrestles with China for global advantage, do both rely heavily on ideas originally forged in Europe? MacLennan answers this question in an epic narrative exceptional in interpretive breadth. Beginning with the Renaissance, readers contemplate the planet-transforming influence of Europe’s unprecedented curiosity and ambition, manifested in innovations in art, science, philosophy, and governance, exported through trade and colonization. Europeans have rendered newly potent even what they have imported. MacLennan indeed highlights Europe’s conversion of Chinese gunpowder from a firework entertainment to a deadly weapon in the rise of Europe’s earth-straddling military might. Frankly acknowledging the crimes perpetrated by European imperialists, MacLennan nonetheless reminds readers that Europe has promulgated progressive ideals and developed productive new industries. Since the French Revolution, non-European slaves have drawn their loftiest hopes from the very European masters against whom they have rebelled. However, the same military strength that gave Europe world mastery brought the continent’s golden era to a bloody end in two horrific world wars. Still, in the now-irenic European Union, MacLennan discerns the political and cultural wisdom the world still needs in charting a path into the future. Even readers resistant to MacLennan’s Eurocentric perspective will learn much here about a singularly dynamic continent. — Bryce Christensen