European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Jan, editor.

Contributor:

Hung, Jochen, editor.

Ira, Jaroslav, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Textbooks.

Humanities.

History--Textbooks.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Open Book Publishers

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline

Contents:

Introduction

Unit 1 Identities

Chapter 1.1 Ideas of Europe

Chapter 1.2 Borders

Chapter 1.3 Migration

Chapter 1.4 Europe's Other(ed)s: The Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East

Unit 2 Societies

Chapter 2.1 Demographic Change

Chatper 2.2 Interethnic Relations

Chapter 2.3 Household and Family

Chapter 2.4 Inequalities

Unit 3 Power and Citizenshpi

Chapter 3.1 State-Building and Nationalism

Chaptetr 3.2 Empire and Colonialism

Chapter 3.3 Revolutions and Civil Wars

Chapter 3.4 Peace and Conflict

Chapter 3.5 Protest and Social Movements

Unit 4 Knowledge

Chapter 4.1 Science and Technological Change

Chapter 4.2 Social Engineering and Welfare

Chapter 4.3 Education and Knowledge Transfer

Chapter 4.4 Understanding and Controllinig the Environment

Unit 5 Economy

Chapter 5.1 Entrepeneurs, Companies, Markets

Chapter 5.2 Distribution Wealth

Chapter 5.3 Production and Consumption

Chapter 5.4 Labour and Forced Labour

Unit 6 Living with Differencce

Chapter 6.1 Religions

Chapter 6.2 Ideologies

Chapter 6.3 Centres and Pripheries

Chapter 6.4 Gnerations and Lifecycles

Unit 7 Cultural Encounters

Chapter 7.1 Experiments and Avant-Gardes

Chapter 7.2 Mass Media and Popular Culture

Chapter 7.3 Sports and Leisure

Chapter 7.4 Heritage and Memory

List of Authors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print resource

ISBN:

9781800648722

1800648723

OCLC:

1371407928