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Postwar : a history of Europe since 1945 / Tony Judt.
Fine Arts Library - Reserve D1051 .J84 2006
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Judt, Tony
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History--1945-.
- Europe.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 933 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
- Summary:
- Provides a history of contemporary Europe, covering thirty-four countries over a span of sixty years, and includes discussion of the region's economic development, culture, and politics.
- Contents:
- 1: Post-war: 1945-1953
- The legacy of war
- Retribution
- The rehabilitation of Europe
- The impossible settlement
- The coming of the cold war
- Into the whirlwind
- Culture wars
- The end of old Europe
- 2: Prosperity and its discontents: 1953-1971
- The politics of stability
- Lost illusions
- The age of affluence
- The social democratic moment
- The spectre of revolution
- The end of the affair
- 3: Recessional: 1971-1989
- Diminished expectations
- Politics in a new key
- A time of transition
- The new realism
- The power of the powerless
- The end of the old order
- 4: After the fall: 1989-2005
- A fissile continent
- The reckoning
- The old Europe
- and the new
- The varieties of Europe
- Europe as a way of life
- From the house of the dead: an essay on modern European memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 835-878) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0143037757
- 9780143037750
- 9781448709885
- 1448709881
- OCLC:
- 71333824
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