Europe since 1945 /

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 cent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fulbrook, Mary, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Short Oxford history of Europe.
Temas:
Since 1945
Security, International.
Sécurité régionale.
HISTORY.
Diplomatic relations.
Economic history.
Europe > History > 1945-
Europe > Economic conditions > 1945-
Europe > Foreign relations > 1945-
Europe > Histoire > 1945-
Europe > Conditions économiques > 1945-
Europe > Relations extérieures > 1945-
Europe.
History
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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