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Wasserstein, Bernard.
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Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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Wasserstein, Bernard.
Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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Barbarism
and
civilization
: a
history
of
Europe
in
our
time
/ Bernard Wasserstein.
by
Wasserstein, Bernard.
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Call #:
940.5 W322b
Subjects
Europe
--
History
-- 20th century.
Europe
--
Civilization
-- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780198730736
019873073X
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
Description:
xxiii, 901 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 2007.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Europe
at 1914 --
Europe
at war 1914-1917 -- Revolutionary
Europe
1917-1921 -- Recovery of the Bourgeoisie 1921-1929 -- Depression and terror 1929-1936 --
Europe
in the 1930s -- Spiral into war 1936-1939 -- Hitler triumphant 1939-1942 -- Life and death in wartime -- End of Hitler's
Europe
1942-1945 --
Europe
partitioned 1945-1949 -- West European recovery 1949-1958 -- Stalin and his heirs 1949-1964 -- Consensus and dissent in Western
Europe
1958-1973 --
Europe
in the 1960s -- Strife in Communist
Europe
1964-1985 -- Stress in liberal
Europe
1973-1989 -- The collapse of Communism in Eastern
Europe
1985-1991 -- After the fall 1991-2007 --
Europe
in the new millennium.
Summary:
"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."--Publisher.
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