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Europe since 1945
Title
Europe since 1945 / edited by Mary Fulbrook.
ISBN
0198731787
0198731795
0203459687
1423786106
6610446407
9780198731788
9780198731795
9780203459683
9781423786108
9786610446407
0198731787
0198731795
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 324 pages) : maps
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Summary
Mary Fulbrook's Introduction to this splendid concluding volume in The Short Oxford History of Europe begins with a vivid contrast, setting the struggle for survival in a devastated rubble-strewn street of East Berlin in 1945 against the same location in the reunited city at the end of the century, unrecognizable in its gleaming, confident, cosmopolitan affluence. The book brings home the extraordinary waves of transformation that have washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, sketching out the major general patterns of this change, and exploring some of the local themes and variations in different parts of Europe. The result is both illuminating and engrossing: a must for students of contemporary history, politics, and European studies, it also offers immense rewards to any reader interested in the roots, and fruits, of the post-war European renaissance.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Europe since 1945. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
The short Oxford history of Europe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cover
General Editor's Preface
Contents
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
1: Introduction: Europe since 1945
Key developments and trends
From fragmentation to convergence?
Towards a European identity?
2: Politics
Reshaping Europe after 1945
Stability and control: the boring 1950s
The radical 1960s
The convergence of Western Europe 1970 ... 1991
The end of communism in Europe
Clouds over Europe's future
3: Social history
The society we left behind: mid-twentieth-century Europe
The main periods of social history since 1945
The post-war era
The era of prosperity
The era of economic difficulties
The era since the upheaval of 1989-1991
The processes of change
Conclusion
4: Economy
Overview of post-war economic trends
Initial conditions
The task of reconstruction
The transition to sustained growth
The role of the Marshall Plan
The age of extensive growth
The economics of intensive growth
Inflationary pressure and labour conflict
The contradictions of corporatism
Retreat into regionalism
Rising unemployment and integrationist response
The crucible of integration
The collapse of central planning
Difficulties of the transition
Retrospect and prospect
5: Culture
Introduction: culture and society in post-1945 Europe
Changing social and political frameworks of cultural development
Social cleavages of cultural practice
Education
Rocking youth culture
Culture and the state during the cold war
The impact of the economy
Changing political meanings in culture and the arts
Experiences and memories of the Second World War
Existentialism
Modernism and Americanism
Marxist debate and radical culture
The feminist challenge
A post-modern crisis?
New systems of communication and globalization
European culture, culture and Europe
6: International and security relations within Europe
Ideological factors in post-war European history
Year zero and the importance of the German question
The cold war and European security
Integrating Europe: from the Schuman plan to the 1990s
After the cold war: the reuniting of Europe in the 1990s
7: Interaction with the non- European world
The cold war
Decolonization
Globalization and internationalization
Conclusion
8: Conclusion
Later twentieth-century Europe in long-term perspective
From the Wall to Wales ... and back again
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps.
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