Companion Europe Since 1945

Herausgegeben von Larres, Klaus

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Europe since 1945 , a collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, offers a reflective analysis of the developments which took place in Europe during the Cold War era and also considers present-day Europe, as it has taken shape since the end of the Cold War.

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A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, social, and cultural character of Europe during and since the Cold War.

Includes 22 original essays by an international team of expert scholars

Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout Europe in the Cold War and Post Cold War periods

Discusses a wide range of topics including the Single Market, European-American relations, family life and employment, globalization, consumption, political parties, European decolonization, European identity, security and defence policies, and Europe s fight against international terrorism

Presents Europe in a broad geographical conception, to give equal weighting to developments in the Eastern and Western European states

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to European History
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781118729984
• ISBN-10: 1118729986
• Artikelnr.: 39711723

Autorenporträt

Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill in the U.S. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Maps xii-xiii Introduction 1
Klaus Larres PART I EUROPE IN TRANSITION: FROM WAR TO COLD WAR 5 1 From War
to Cold War 7 Mark Gilbert 2 Federalism and the Beginnings of European
Union 25 John Pinder PART II EUROPE AND THE COLD WAR WORLD 45 3 The Cold
War: The Western European Perspective 47 Ian Jackson 4 The Soviet Bloc and
the Cold War in Europe 67 Mark Kramer 5 Economic Developments in Western
and Eastern Europe since 1945 95 Ian Jackson 6 The End of Empires:
Decolonization and Its Repercussions 113 David R. Devereux 7 European
Integration: From the Common Market to the Single Market 133 Desmond Dinan
8 The United States and European Integration, 1945-1990 151 Klaus Larres 9
The Churches and Christianity in Cold War Europe 183 Dianne Kirby 10 The
End of the Cold War and the Unifi cation of the European Continent 208
Carine Germond PART III EUROPE SINCE 1990: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENTS 229 11 Transatlantic Relations since the End of the Cold War:
Permanent Alliance or Partnership in Peril? 231 Robert Hutchings 12 Europe
and Economic Globalization since 1945 249 Alfred E. Eckes Jr. 13 Economic
Integration since Maastricht 270 Christopher Flockton 14 Political Parties
in Europe since 1945 302 Roger Eatwell 15 The Genesis of a European
Security and Defence Policy 323 Ralph Dietl 16 Europe's Experience of
Terrorism since 1945: A Brief Overview 355 Paul Wilkinson PART IV EUROPE
SINCE 1990: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS 367 17 The Quest for a
European Identity: A Europe without Europeans? 369 Ruth Wittlinger 18
Europe and Post-Cold War Nationalism 387 Claire Sutherland 19 The
Participatory Revolution: New Social Movements and Civil Society 407
Ingolfur Blühdorn 20 Postwar Europe: A Continent Built on Migration 432
Panikos Panayi 21 Changing Norms of Masculinity and Femininity: Development
in Gender Relations and Family Structures in Europe 450 Laura den Dulk 22
Europe and the Welfare State since 1945 472 Steen P. Mangen Index 501