Europe's Postwar Periods - 1989, 1945, 1918: Writing History Backwards

ISBN-13: 9781474276504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str.

Martin Conway; Pieter Lagrou; Henry Rousso

Opis

This book brings together world-renowned scholars from the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and elsewhere across mainland Europe to analyse how successive Europes have been constructed in the wake of the key conflicts of the period: the Cold War and the two World Wars. By regressively tracing Europe's path back to these pivotal moments as part of a unique methodology, Europe's Postwar Periods - 1989, 1945, 1918 reveals the defining characteristics of these postwar periods and integrates the changes that followed 1989 into a more substantial historical perspective.Martin Conway and the author team address the crucial themes in recent European history on a chapter-by-chapter basis that gives comprehensive coverage to the whole of the European region for topics such as borders, states, empires, democracy, justice, markets and futures.The volume highlights the fact that Europe was made less by wars than is commonly thought, and more by the nature of the settlements international, national, political, economic and social that followed the two World Wars and the Cold War. It is an important, innovative text for all students and scholars of 20th-century European history."