Europe's postwar periods, 1989, 1945, 1918 : writing history backwards /
This book brings together world-renowned scholars from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France and elsewhere across mainland Europe to provide a multi-authored history of 20th-century Europe from the present to the past. It analyzes how successive Europes have been constructed in the wake of th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2019]
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| Summary: | This book brings together world-renowned scholars from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France and elsewhere across mainland Europe to provide a multi-authored history of 20th-century Europe from the present to the past. It analyzes how successive Europes have been constructed in the wake of the key conflicts of the period, the Cold War and the two World Wars. By regressively tracing Europe's path back to these pivotal moments as part of a unique methodology, Europe's Postwar Periods-1989, 1945, 1918 reveals the defining characteristics of these postwar periods more clearly and at the same time integrates the changes that followed 1989 into a more substantial historical perspective. Martin Conway and the author team address the crucial themes in recent European history on a chapter-by-chapter basis that gives comprehensive coverage to the whole of the European region. The volume highlights the fact that Europe was made less by wars than is commonly thought, and more by the nature of the settlements, international, national, political, economic and social, that followed the two World Wars and the Cold War. It is an important, innovative text for all students and scholars of 20th-century European history. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 236 pages : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-221) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474276504 1474276504 |