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"A Companion to Europe 1900-1945" brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss the major debates in the study of early twentieth-century Europe. The volume outlines the great political and social upheavals of the period and the great changes in culture and the...

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Other Authors: Martel, Gordon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Series:Blackwell companions to European history.
Subjects:
Europe > History > 20th century.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Europe in agony, 1900-1945 / Gordon Martel
  • Urbanization, poverty, and crime / Paul Lawrence
  • The revolution in science / Cathryn Carson
  • Feminism : women, work, and politics / June Hannam
  • Modernism / Robin Walz
  • The cult of youth / Elizabeth Harvey
  • Sexuality and the psyche / Lesley A. Hall
  • The economy / Peter Wardley
  • Europe's world : power, empire, and colonialism / Woodruff D. Smith
  • Social reform or social revolution? / Gary P. Steenson
  • Modernity : approaching the twentieth century / Angela K. Smith
  • Politics : the past and the future / Peter Waldron
  • The coming of war, 1914 / Annika Mombauer
  • August 1914 : public opinion and the crisis / David Welch
  • The war in the trenches / Tim Travers
  • The war from above : aims, strategy, and diplomacy / Matthew Stibbe
  • The war and revolution / Mark Baker
  • Peacemaking after World War I / Alan Sharp
  • Demobilization and discontent / James M. Diehl
  • The socialist experiment / William J. Chase
  • The fascist challenge / Martin Blinkhorn
  • Revisionism / Carole Fink
  • The jazz age / Thomas J. Saunders
  • The Nazi new society / Dick Geary
  • The popular front / Michael Richards
  • The strategic revolution / Tami Davis Biddle
  • Hitler and the origins of World War II / Anita J. Prazmowska
  • Grand strategy and summit diplomacy / Michael Jabara Carley
  • The real war / David French
  • The home fronts : Europe at war, 1939-1945 / Nicholas Atkin
  • The Holocaust / David Engel
  • Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe / Harold Marcuse.