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Europe in the era of two World Wars : from militarism and genocide to civil society, 1900-1950 /

How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? In this book, Volker Berghahn explains the rise and fall of the men of violence whose wars and civil...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berghahn, Volker R. (Volker Rolf), 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CHAPTER ONE: Europe before World War I, 1895-1914
  • Industrial Economy and Civil Society
  • The Curse of Ethnonationalism and Colonialism
  • Premonitions of Total War
  • CHAPTER TWO: Violence Unleashed, 1914-1923
  • Mobilization, 1914
  • The Totalization of Warfare
  • The Wars after the Great War
  • CHAPTER THREE: Recivilization and Its Failure, 1924-1935
  • The Short Dream of Prosperity for All
  • Militarism
  • The Stalinist Experiment in Violence
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Violence without Bounds, 1935-1945
  • Total Mobilization in Peacetime
  • Terroristic Warfare
  • Visions of a New European Order
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Chronology
  • Index.