Bernard Wasserstein

Barbarism and Civilization (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Europe in our Time

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of respect and opportunity. It was a century of barbarism and civilization, of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental spoliation, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression - and of individualism resurgent. Covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic change, Barbarism and Civilization is by turns grim, humorous, surprising, and enlightening: a window on the century we have left behind and the earliest years of its troubled successor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191622519
• Artikelnr.: 38146275

Autorenporträt

Bernard Wasserstein was born in London in 1948 and educated at Balliol and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford. He has taught at Sheffield, Oxford, Glasgow, and Brandeis Universities and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2003 he has been Harriet and Ulrich Meyer Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His many previous books include Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945 and The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (which won the Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction from the Crime Writers' Association).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Europe at 1914
2: Europe at War 1914-1917
3: Revolutionary Europe 1917-1921
4: Recovery of the Bourgeiosie 1921-1929
5: Depression and Terror 1929-1936
6: Europe in the 1930s
7: Spiral into War 1936-1939
8: Hitler Triumphant 1939-1942
9: Life and Death in Wartime
10: End of Hitler's Europe 1942-1945
11: Europe Partitioned 1945-1949
12: West European Recovery 1949-1958
13: Stalin and His Heirs 1949-1964
14: Consensus and Dissent in Western Europe 1958-1973
15: Europe in the 1960s
16: Strife in Communist Europe 1964-1985
17: Stress in Liberal Europe 1973-1989
18: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe 1985-1991
19: After the Fall 1991-2007
20: Europe in the New Millennium
Notes
Bibliography
Index