Twentieth-Century Europe A Brief History, 1900 to the Present.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History, 1900 to the Present
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 Overview: 1900-1919
- 1 Before the Deluge Europe, 1900-1914: Europe, 1900-1914
- Chronology
- Europe and the World
- The Great Powers
- The Class Structure
- References
- 2 The Great War, 1914-1918
- Chronology
- The Coming of the Great War
- The Great War, 1914-1917
- The Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
- Trench Warfare
- The Course of the War: 1915
- Sausage Machine: 1916
- The Home Front
- The War around the World
- Decision, 1917-1918
- References
- Further Reading
- 3 Revolution and Peacemaking, 1917-1919
- Chronology
- Revolution in Russia
- Civil War in Russia
- Revolution in Germany
- Peacemaking, 1919
- The League of Nations
- References
- Further Reading
- Part 2 Overview : 1919-1939
- 4 Aftershocks of the Great War
- Chronology
- Intellectual Trends
- A Second Scientific Revolution
- Postwar Despair
- Culture
- The Social Impact
- Peasants and Agriculture
- The Working Class
- The Middle Class
- References
- Further Reading
- 5 Recovery and Prosperity, 1919-1929
- Chronology
- Great Britain
- France
- Weimar Germany
- Italy
- The Soviet Union
- The Smaller States
- Eastern Europe
- Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
- United States
- China and Japan
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
- 6 From Depression to War, 1929-1939
- Chronology
- The American Connection
- Responses
- The Depression in Germany: The Nazis Come to Power
- The New Dictatorships
- The Stalinist Dictatorship
- The Road to War in Europe
- The Road to War in the Pacific
- Reference
- Further Reading
- Part 3 Overview : 1939-1967
- 7 Armageddon: Europe in World War II, 1939-1945
- Chronology
- Blitzkrieg
- Operation Barbarossa
- Stalingrad and D-Day
- Home Fronts
- Collaboration and Resistance
- The Holocaust
- The End of the War
- References
- 8 Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1961
- Chronology
- Origins of the Cold War
- Crisis Years, 1947-1948
- The Two Germanies
- The Cold War Launched
- Dismantling the Colonial Empires
- References
- 9 Out of the Ashes From Stunde Null (Zero Hour) to a New Golden Age, 1945-1967 : From Stunde Null (Zero Hour) To A New Golden Age, 1945-1967
- Chronology
- Reconstruction
- Reconstruction in the West: British Problems
- Reconstruction in the West: French Success
- Reconstruction in the West: German Wirtschaftswunder
- Reconstruction in the West: Other Countries, Other Stories
- Reconstruction in the East: The Stalinist Legacy
- Reconstruction in the East: The Seemingly Successful German Democratic Republic
- Reconstruction in the East: The New Poland
- Reconstruction in the East: Hungary and Revolution
- On the Way to a United Europe
- A Consumer Economy in Western Europe
- Social Change
- Détente
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading