Abstract
The diversity of Europe’s peoples and their languages, religions and cultures has contributed greatly to the fascination of Europe and to the emergence of the European culture and ethic which, though frequently modified, has become the dominant influence in many parts of the world. Equally, that same diversity among the Europeans was largely responsible for the nineteenth and twentieth-century emergence of nation states. This in its turn was a major factor in the outbreak of two world wars within a single generation which were to stimulate the post Second World War recognition that increasing unification and interdependence of these diverse elements was essential to the greater well-being of Europe and of the world.
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Discussion of the origins and diffusion of early man is found in C. S. Coon, The Origins of Race, Cape, New York (1962).
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The development and classification of European languages can be usefully examined in F. Bodmer, The Loom of Language, Allen and Unwin, London (1943).
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Mellor, R.E.H., Smith, E.A. (1979). The Europeans. In: Europe. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16101-0_2
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