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Europe, 1890-1945 : crisis and conflict / Robin W. Winks, R.J.Q. Adams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winks, Robin W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History--1871-1918.
- Europe.
- History.
- Europe--History--1918-1945.
- Europe--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Europe--Intellectual life--20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1. The New Age 1
- European Peoples 1
- The Creative Passion 4
- The New Sciences 9
- New Visions of Society 12
- Freud and the Science of the Mind 19
- New Women 21
- 2. The Modernization of Nations 26
- Political Ideas 27
- Britain: Toward Democracy and Crisis 28
- France: The Third Republic, 1890-1914 38
- Italy: Unity and Frustration 41
- Germany: The Nation-State 45
- Austria-Hungary: Dividing Humanity into Nations 49
- Imperial Russia: The Struggle for Modernity 57
- The Autocratic Monarchies in 1914 64
- The United States: The Emerging Great Power 65
- 3. Great War, Great Revolution 72
- Causes of the War 72
- The Course of the War 84
- The Home Fronts 93
- The Peace Settlements 96
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 105
- The Environment 119
- 4. Between the Wars: A Twenty-Year Crisis 125
- The First Triumph of Fascism: Italy 129
- The Weimar Republic: Germany, 1918-1933 135
- Germany Under Hitler, 1933-1939 145
- Authoritarianism in Iberia 152
- Successor States to the Habsburg Empire 155
- Other Authoritarian Regimes in Europe 159
- The Soviet Union 160
- 5. The Democracies and the Non-Western World 176
- Great Britain 177
- France 183
- The United States 187
- The East Meets the West: Western History and World History 193
- 6. The Second World War and Its Aftermath 209
- International Politics Between the Wars 209
- The Road to War, 1931-1939 216
- World War II, 1939-1942 222
- Victory for the United Nations 236
- The War in the Pacific 245
- Aftermath 250.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195154495
- 0195154509
- OCLC:
- 50072635
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