Bonnie G. Smith

Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present (eBook, ePUB)

A Narrative History with Documents

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This newly updated and improved edition of Bonnie G. Smith's classic textbook provides the most authoritative history available of Europe in a global context during the 20th and 21st centuries. It cleverly incorporates elements of political, social, cultural, economic and intellectual history and presents an integrated history with detailed coverage right across the continent.

Including 131 images and 23 maps, Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present is organized around key themes within a chronological chapter structure that is easy to follow. Smith's balanced treatment of the subject allows for a comprehensive assessment of the positive and negative developments in European history over the period, as well as the wider impact of this in the world at large. The book also includes picture essays and document sections, which provide variety and foreground the importance of primary sources, and useful end-of-chapter further readings for students who wish to investigate specific topics in greater depth.

The enhanced 2nd edition contains:

* A new chapter on the 21st-century issues that have challenged and continue to challenge Europe
* More material on globalization, the end of the Cold War, European countercultures and various other topics
* Historiographic updates throughout

Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present is the definitive guide to Europe and its place in the world since 1900 for students and scholars alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350029576
• Artikelnr.: 60575923

Autorenporträt

Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, USA. She is the author of several books, including Women's Studies: The Basics (2013), Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to Present: A Narrative History with Documents (2007) and The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (2000). She is also the co-author, along with Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin and Barbara Rosenwein, of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (4th Ed., 2012) and the general editor of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008), which won the American Library Association Outstanding Reference Work Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface for Instructors Introduction for Students 1. Imperial Europe at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century 2. Modernity and the Unsettling of Europe, 1900
1914 3. World War I and the Russian Revolution, 1914
1922 4. A World Transformed, 1920
1925 5. Facing Global Economic Depression, 1929
1939 6. The Second World War and the Collapse of Europe, 1939
1945 7. Devastated Europe in an Age of Cold War, 1945
1963 8. The Rebirth of Prosperity and the Rise of the Welfare State in the 1950s and Early 1960s 9. Post
Imperial Europe, ca. 1947 to 1980 10. Post
Industrial Europe and its Critics, 1965
1979 11. Europe Changes Course: The 1980s and Beyond 12. Europe in the Global Age 13. Twenty
First Century Challenges Index