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The Penguin history of Europe, 9, Roller-coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
In: The Penguin history of Europe / general editor: David Cannadine, 9
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a series of events which threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures whose fates were dictated to them by the Cold War. There were striking successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability. In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across the continent, Roller-Coaster will make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European.
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Democracy in Europe: a history of an ideology
In: The making of Europe
Schooling in Western Europe: a social history
In: SUNY series on interdisciplinary perspectives in social history
Solidarity in Europe: The History of an Idea
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 217-218
ISSN: 0021-969X
Diephouse reviews Solidarity in Europe: The History of an Idea by Steinar Stjerno.
History of the Council of Europe
Aids in Europe - the behavioural aspect, 1, General aspects
In: Ergebnisse sozialwissenschaftlicher Aids-Forschung 16
General - Foreign Investment in Eastern Europe by Zbigniew D
In: Foreign affairs, Band 72, Heft 2, S. 171
ISSN: 0015-7120
Review.
Homelands: a personal history of Europe
Drawing on half a century of travel and thinking, this book tells the story of Europe since its emergence from wartime hell in 1945: how it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a 'Europe whole and free'. And then faltered. Timothy Garton Ash has spent a lifetime studying Europe. Highl ypersonal and deeply felt, this books is also full of vivid experiences, encounters and anecdotes: from his father's memories of D-Day to interviewing Polish dockers, Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo, and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising political leaders in the UK, Europe and the US. Homelands is both a living, breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress and a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. At its heart, this book is an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved.
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