T. C. W. Blanning (ed.)

The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe

Ed. by T. C. W. Blanning

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book covers Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Attractively illustrated with over 200 pictures in colour and black and white, it provides a better understanding of modern Europe, how it came to be what it is, and even where it may be going in the future.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Illustrated History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 190mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 874g
• ISBN-13: 9780192854261
• ISBN-10: 0192854267
• Artikelnr.: 10491174

Autorenporträt

T. C. W. Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His books include Rise and Fall of the French Revolution, 1789-99 (University of Chicago Press, 1996); French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash? (Macmillan, 1997); French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802 (Arnold, 1996); Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars (Longman, 1986).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: John Roberts: Revolution from Above and Below: European Politics
from the French Revolution to the First World War
* 2: Clive Trebilcock: The Industrialization of Modern Europe,
1750-1914
* 3: Hew Strachan: Military Modernization, 1789-1918
* 4: Pamela Pilbeam: From Orders to Classes: European Society in the
Nineteenth Century
* 5: T. C. W. Blanning: The Commercialization and Sacralization of
European Culture in the Nineteenth Century
* 6: Paul Preston: The Great Civil War: European Politics, 1914-45
* 7: Harold James: The Fall and Rise of the European Economy in the
Twentieth Century
* 8: Richard Overy: Warfare in Europe since 1918
* 9: Richard Bessel: European Society in the Twentieth Century
* 10: Martin Jay: From Modernism to Post-Modernism
* 11: David Reynolds: Europe Divided and Reunited, 1945-95
* Further Reading; Chronology; Maps; Acknowledgement of Sources; Index