This book brings together world-renowned scholars from all over 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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface - Henry Rousso (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
Introduction - Martin Conway (University of Oxford, UK)
1. Borders - Dariusz Stola (Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University, Poland)
2. Demobilizations - John Horne (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
3. Empires - Malika Rahal (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
4. States - Pieter Lagrou (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
5. Democracy - Martin Conway (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Pasts - Peter Apor (Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) and Henry Rousso (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
7. Justice - Annette Weinke (Friedrich Schiller University, Germany) and Guillaume Mouralis (National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
8. Markets - Paolo Capuzzo (University of Bologna, Italy)
9. Futures - Peter Apor (Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Conclusion - Thomas Lindenberger (University of Potsdam, Germany)
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