David Imhoof

So, About Modern Europe...

A Conversational History from the Enlightenment to the Present Day

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Produktbeschreibung

The West - Europe and the USA - has kind of had its way with the world for a few centuries. Why else does everyone speak English, listen to hip-hop, and want to buy Mercedes? Starting with the Enlightenment, Europeans developed big ideas that have increased opportunities for people around the world and raised standards of living. But those same ideas have also produced wars, genocide, colonialism, and the potential for global environmental disaster. This book describes the origins and legacy of this mixed bag of ideas which includes everything from democracy and feminism to those old foes, communism and capitalism. After all, it's a bag which still shapes how most people on the planet look at things today. In a natural, funny and engaging style, So, About Modern Europe... expertly guides readers through the good, the bad and the indifferent of modern European history, convincingly arguing the need to 'tip the cap' to the Enlightenment and its influence along the way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9781350148697
• ISBN-10: 1350148695
• Artikelnr.: 58778242

Autorenporträt

David Imhoofis Professor of History at Susquehanna University, USA. He is the author of Becoming a Nazi Town: Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars(2013) and the co-editor, along with Margaret Eleanor Menninger, of The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Introduction 1. (Re)birthing New Ideas in the Renaissance
2. Science is a Human Invention 3. The Enlightenment will Free You and Mess
You Up 4. Now, That's a Revolution! (France, 1789) 5. I've got a Fever, and
the only Prescription is more Nationalism! 6. Industrialization, or:
Welcome to the Machine 7. On the Road Again: The Ideas and Violence of
Western Imperialism 8. Look, We've Got to Talk about the Enlightenment 9.
World War I: The War that Did Nothing but Changed Everything 10. Between
the Wars without a Center, or: Up the Creek without a Paddle 11. Downhill
all the Way: World War II and the Holocaust 12. The Cold War as a Line in
the Sand 13. The Long, Strange, and Not-So-Complete Death of Colonialism
14. The End of History, or Something Like That 15. You Do You: Identity
Politics Epilogue Further Reading Index