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Cataclysms : a history of the twentieth century from Europe's edge / Dan Diner ; translated by William Templer with Joel Golb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diner, Dan, 1946-
- Series:
- George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history
- Standardized Title:
- Jahrhundert verstehen. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- History, Modern--20th century.
- History, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 322 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Contingencies and Periodizations
- Reestablished Spaces and Revived Times
- Peripheral Perspectives and Pivotal Events
- Continuous Narrations and Intentional Omissions
- 1 Interpretations: Two Varieties of Universal Civil War 11
- War and Civil War
- America and Europe
- Balance and Hegemony
- Constitution and Nationality
- Freedom and Equality
- Warfaring Virtues and Mechanized Death
- Two Kinds of Anti-Bolshevism
- Race and Class
- Sea Power and Land Power
- Demos and Ethnos
- Self-Government and Self-Determination
- Fascism and Anti-Fascism
- West and East
- 2 Conversions: Nation and Revolution 59
- War and Revolution
- Society and Ethnicity
- Expansion and Intervention
- Red Nations and White Nations
- Patriotic Wars
- Borders and Minorities
- Hungary and Rumania
- Greeks in Odessa
- Poles and Soviets
- Stalin and Tukhachevsky
- Germany and Russia
- Revision and the Status Quo
- Hitler's Wars
- Poland's Frontiers
- Germany's Unity
- 3 Regimes: Democracy and Dictatorship 106
- Weimar Lessons
- Hermann Muller and Ramsay MacDonald
- Tradition and Contingency
- Stability and Crisis
- England and France
- Social Democracy and Radical Republicanism
- Parliamentarianism and Authoritarianism
- Cabals and Intrigues
- Papen and Schleicher
- Hitler and Hindenburg
- Access to the Ruler
- Emblematics of Contingency
- Dictatorship and Dictatorship
- 4 Cataclysms: Genocide and Memory 153
- Eastern Questions
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Greeks and Turks
- Armenian Catastrophes
- Poland's Demography
- Germany's Ideology
- Eastern Expansion and Holocaust
- Opposing Perspectives
- Memory and Narrative
- Hierarchy of Remembrance
- Nazism and Stalinism
- Labor and Death
- Genocide and Class Extinction
- Comparison and Perception
- 5 Dualisms: Decolonization and the Cold War 199
- Translatio Imperii
- Britain and America
- Geography and Ideology
- Greek Questions-Far Eastern Answers
- Asian Crisis and Western Freedoms
- Worlds Divided - Worlds Apart
- Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek
- Dulles and Mendes-France
- Dien Bien Phu and European Integration
- History Neutralized-History Revived.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299223507
- 9780299223502
- OCLC:
- 123377230
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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