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Acknowledgements<\/h2>\r\nThank you to my colleagues at Columbia College, Lee Blanding and Kathy McKay for peer reviewing the 2025 edition. <\/span>I would also like to thank Melissa Cardoso for her assistance and support navigating the OER application process. Additional thanks to Faith Jones and <\/span>Archa Neelakandan Girjia for sharing their knowledge about OER best practices.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEurope Since 1600: A Concise History<\/em> Revised<\/em> was created with support from the OER Fund 2024-2025, a grant funded by Columbia College located in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis book is an adaptation of Europe Since 1600: A Concise History<\/em>, published by Nicole Jobin in 2023, under a\u00a0Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>, except where otherwise noted.\u00a0Much of the original text was written by Christopher Brooks in Western Civilization: A Concise History,<\/em> and unless otherwise noted, was published in three volumes under a Creative Commons \u00a0BY-NC-SA<\/a> Licence in 2019, with updates in 2020 available on the Open Textbook Library website<\/a>. The new and revised material in this adaptation is copyrighted 2025 by the adapting author, Meghan K. Bowe, and is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0<\/a> License. \"Creative<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\nThis edition includes original material on the Second World War and Post-war period in addition to identification terms, historical sources, images and questions for discussion. Other specific adaptations are listed at the end of each chapter. In general, typographical errors were corrected and language was occasionally revised to improve clarity. This textbook can be referenced in Chicago citation style, it should appear as follows: Bowe, Meghan K. \u00a0Europe Since 1600: A Concise History Revised. <\/em>Pressbooks, 2025. https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/europesince1600revised\/.<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\nCover Image created by Meghan K. Bowe using Pressbooks. Image: adaptation of 1706 De La Feuille Map of Europe - Geographicus<\/em> by Daniel de la Feuille, public domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:1706_De_La_Feuille_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_Europe-lafeuille-1706.jpg<\/a><\/span>\r\n\r\n
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Acknowledgements<\/h2>\n

Thank you to my colleagues at Columbia College, Lee Blanding and Kathy McKay for peer reviewing the 2025 edition. <\/span>I would also like to thank Melissa Cardoso for her assistance and support navigating the OER application process. Additional thanks to Faith Jones and <\/span>Archa Neelakandan Girjia for sharing their knowledge about OER best practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Europe Since 1600: A Concise History<\/em> Revised<\/em> was created with support from the OER Fund 2024-2025, a grant funded by Columbia College located in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book is an adaptation of Europe Since 1600: A Concise History<\/em>, published by Nicole Jobin in 2023, under a\u00a0Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>, except where otherwise noted.\u00a0Much of the original text was written by Christopher Brooks in Western Civilization: A Concise History,<\/em> and unless otherwise noted, was published in three volumes under a Creative Commons \u00a0BY-NC-SA<\/a> Licence in 2019, with updates in 2020 available on the Open Textbook Library website<\/a>. The new and revised material in this adaptation is copyrighted 2025 by the adapting author, Meghan K. Bowe, and is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0<\/a> License. \"Creative<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This edition includes original material on the Second World War and Post-war period in addition to identification terms, historical sources, images and questions for discussion. Other specific adaptations are listed at the end of each chapter. In general, typographical errors were corrected and language was occasionally revised to improve clarity. This textbook can be referenced in Chicago citation style, it should appear as follows: Bowe, Meghan K. \u00a0Europe Since 1600: A Concise History Revised. <\/em>Pressbooks, 2025. https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/europesince1600revised\/.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Cover Image created by Meghan K. Bowe using Pressbooks. Image: adaptation of 1706 De La Feuille Map of Europe – Geographicus<\/em> by Daniel de la Feuille, public domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:1706_De_La_Feuille_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_Europe-lafeuille-1706.jpg<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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