Barbarism and Civilization : A History of Europe in our Time

ISBN-13: 9780198730736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 928 str.

Bernard Wasserstein

Opis

A vibrant new history of twentieth-century Europe - covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic developments in a period of convulsive and dramatic change.

Recenzje

This epic account of Europe in the 20th century grabs the reader with snappy chapters packed with telling detaila nd articulate assessment. Christopher Hirst, The Independent

O autorze

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).