Nicholas Atkin (ed.)

Themes in Modern European History, 1890-1945

Herausgeber: Atkin, Nicholas; Biddiss, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Adopting a thematic approach to a period of great change and upheaval in Europe, these essays throw new light on developments in society, the economy, politics and culture, fixing them not only in the political framework of the time, but also in their social and cultural contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780415391450
• ISBN-10: 0415391458
• Artikelnr.: 26370364

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Atkin is Professor of Modern European history at the University of Reading. He has published extensively on twentieth-century France and has recently edited The Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth Century Europe. He is currently writing a history of British tourism to France since the 1850s. Michael Biddiss is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Reading General Editor of the Routledge 'Themes' series. His previous publications include Disease and History (co-author, 2000); and The Humanities in the New Millennium (co-editor, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Conspectus 2. East and West 3. Social and Economic Developments 4.
Intellectual and Cultural Revolution 5. The Origins of the First World War
6. The First World War and its Impact 7. The Soviet Union and Bolshevism
Abroad 8. Fascism 9. The Challenge to Interwar Liberal Democracy 10. The
Origins of the Second World War 11. The Experience of Total War, 1939-45
12. Europe and the Wider World