Europe Contested analyses the failures and achievements of an astonishing era of economic advance and political chaos, from the First World War up to the present day. Supported by boxed case studies, illustrations, chronologies and an annotated bibliography, it is the perfect introduction for students of Modern European History.
Europe Contested analyses the failures and achievements of an astonishing era of economic advance and political chaos, from the First World War up to the present day. Supported by boxed case studies, illustrations, chronologies and an annotated bibliography, it is the perfect introduction for students of Modern European History.
Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton University, USA. His books include The German Slump (1986), The End of Globalization (2001), and Making the European Monetary Union (2012).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chronology 1 The twentieth century in an iron cage: modernization and rationalization 2 War and peace: Lenin and Wilson 3 The 1920s: precarious democracy 4 Europe and the world of the Depression 5 Peace and war: the failure of the international order in the 1930s 6 The Second World War 7 The reconstruction of Europe, Western Style: making the 1950s 8 Yalta and communism: the reconstruction of Europe, Eastern style, from the 1940s to the 1970s 9 A golden age: the 1960s 10 The limits to growthmanship: the 1970s 11 Right step: the 1980s 12 Malta and communism: 1989 and the restoration of Europe 13 The return to Europe: the new politics and the end of the Cold War 14 Europe in a new world order Appendix 1: populations of major European Countries Appendix 2: short biographies Appendix 3: further reading Index
Introduction Chronology 1 The twentieth century in an iron cage: modernization and rationalization 2 War and peace: Lenin and Wilson 3 The 1920s: precarious democracy 4 Europe and the world of the Depression 5 Peace and war: the failure of the international order in the 1930s 6 The Second World War 7 The reconstruction of Europe, Western Style: making the 1950s 8 Yalta and communism: the reconstruction of Europe, Eastern style, from the 1940s to the 1970s 9 A golden age: the 1960s 10 The limits to growthmanship: the 1970s 11 Right step: the 1980s 12 Malta and communism: 1989 and the restoration of Europe 13 The return to Europe: the new politics and the end of the Cold War 14 Europe in a new world order Appendix 1: populations of major European Countries Appendix 2: short biographies Appendix 3: further reading Index
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