Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our TimeOUP Oxford, 2009 M02 12 - 928 páginas 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. |
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2 Europe at War 19141917 | 37 |
3 Revolutionary Europe 19171921 | 80 |
4 Recovery of the Bourgeoisie 19211929 | 127 |
5 Depression and Terror 19291936 | 165 |
6 Europe in the 1930s | 205 |
7 Spiral into War 19361939 | 242 |
8 Hitler Triumphant 19391942 | 287 |
13 Stalin and his Heirs 19491964 | 487 |
14 Consensus and Dissent in Western Europe 19581973 | 520 |
15 Europe in the 1960s | 554 |
16 Strife in Communist Europe 19641985 | 590 |
17 Stress in Liberal Europe 19731989 | 627 |
18 The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe 19851991 | 666 |
19 After the Fall 19912007 | 705 |
20 Europe in the New Millennium | 750 |
9 Life and Death in Wartime | 330 |
10 End of Hitlers Europe 19421945 | 369 |
11 Europe Partitioned 19451949 | 403 |
12 West European Recovery 19491958 | 451 |
Notes | 794 |
Bibliography | 838 |
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