Author: Asa Briggs
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Modern Europe provides both text and illustrations which draw on a wide range of sources, from state archives, published memoirs and heroic paintings to private letters, oral testimony, picture postcards, cartoons and songs.
Author: Asa Briggs
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317868498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people' history. Bringing this history vividly to life, the authors use a very broad range of sources including memoirs, archives, letters, songs and newspapers. In particular, there is new treatment of the following themes: Religion and the modern Papacy Immigration in Europe and relationships between minority and majority groups UNESCO The European Bill of Rights The seeds of conflict in Bosnia and Croatia Europe's relations with the wider world, with particular attention to the Middle East and Japan.
Author: David S. Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442205350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, A Concise History of Modern Europe provides a readable, succinct history of the continent from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to the present day. Avoiding a detailed, lengthy chronology, the book focuses on key events and ideas to explore the causes and consequences of revolutions—be they political, economic, or scientific; the origins and development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity. Any reader needing a broad overview of the sweep of European history since 1789 will find this book, published in a first edition under the title Revolutionary Europe, an engaging and cohesive narrative.
Author: David Stewart Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780742537682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the integration of the European Union. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the causes and consequences of revolution: political, economic, and scientific; the development of human rights; and issues of European identity and integration. He deliberately avoids a detailed chronology of every country and time period by emphasizing the most crucial events in shaping contemporary Europe. Fourteen focused chapters address such topical issues as the Enlightenment; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution; the theories and impact of Marx and Darwin; the revolutions of 1848, 1917, and 1989; the unifications of Germany and Italy; European imperialism; the two World Wars; the Cold War; and the evolution and expansion of the European Union. Any reader who wants to view the broad sweep of European history will find this book an engaging narrative.
Author: Hugh McLeod
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Piotr H. Kosicki
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633862841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a "world event," but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one. The authors of these nine essays consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Africa, Chile and Afghanistan, Turkey and the USA. They trace the circulation of people, practices, and concepts that linked these countries, turning local developments into a global phenomenon. At the same time, they examine the many shifts that revolution underwent in transit. All nine chapters detail the process of mutation, adaptation, and appropriation through which foreign affairs found new meanings on the ground. They interrogate the uses and understandings of 1989 in particular national contexts, often many years after the fact. Taken together, this volume asks how the fall of communism in Europe became the basis for revolutionary action around the world, proposing a paradigm shift in global thinking about revolution and protest.
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226252742
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Collection of essays originally published in the Journal of modern history, v. 68, no. 4, Dec. 1996; most of the essays were originally presented at a conference held Apr. 1994, University of Chicago.
Author: Jonathan Dewald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780684312002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Author: Grace Davie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198280653
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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This book is intended for scholars and students of Sociology, Religion, Politics, European Studies, and Philosophy.
Author: Frédéric Bozo
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845457870
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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This book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. --from publisher description.
