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A people's history of modern Europe /
"From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget. Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. "The king's in his castle ... All's right with the world": the collapse of the Middle Ages
- 2. "The other reformation": Martin Luther, religious dogma and the common people
- 3. "The world turned upside down": the crisis of the seventeenth century and the English Revolution, 1640-49
- 4. The rise of the third estate: The French people revolt
- 5. Becoming an appendage to the machine: the revolution in production
- 6. From the revolutions of 1848-49 to the first people's democracy: The Paris Commune
- 7. The rise of the working classes: trade unions and socialism
- 8. Protest and mutiny confront mass slaughter: Europeans and World War I
- 9. War leads to revolution: Russia (1917), Central Europe (1918-19)
- 10. Economic collapse and the rise of fascism, 1920-33
- 11. Against fascist terror: war and genocide, 1933-45
- 12. A New Europe? 1945-48
- 13. Europeans in the Cold War: between Moscow and Washington
- 14. From the Berlin Wall to the Prague Spring: a new generation of Europeans
- 15. Fighting for peace in an Atomic Age, 1969-89
- 16. Europe falls into the twenty-first century.