Europe, 1945 to the Present,9780195156928

Europe, 1945 to the Present

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ISBN13: 9780195156928
ISBN10: 0195156927
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-04-07
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This forthcoming volume will join Oxford University Press's successful series of compact, accessible, and insightful guides covering the general history of Europe from ancient times to the present. Each book in the series offers a clear outline of political history alongside discussions of social and cultural issues; an authoritative narrative that takes the latest historical interpretations into account; support for many different lecture and discussion formats; and chapter summaries, an end-of-book chronology, detailed maps, numerous illustrations, and text boxes with primary source excerpts.

Table of Contents

Maps and Boxes
vii
Preface ix
Europe in a Bipolar World
1(24)
A Continent in Ruins
1(3)
The Cold War Breaks Out
4(4)
The United States Pursues a Policy of Containment
8(7)
Restlessness in the Soviet Bloc, 1948--1968
15(5)
Did a Nuclear Balance Create a Nuclear Peace?
20(2)
Summary
22(3)
The Loss of European Empire
25(23)
The Vasco da Gama Era
25(1)
The French War in Indochina
26(4)
The French War in Algeria
30(6)
Britain Leaves India
36(2)
The Netherlands Yields in Indonesia
38(1)
Oil Transforms the Middle East
39(3)
The Creation of Israel---The Suez Crisis---Arab-Israeli Conflicts
The Scramble for Africa
42(3)
Exploiting the Congo---Violence Wracks the Congo
Peaceful Transitions from European Rule
45(1)
Summary
46(2)
Western Europe
48(24)
Britain from Postwar Social Reform Through the Thatcher Revolution to Tony Blair's New Labour Party
48(5)
France from Defeat in World War II to Leadership of the European Union
53(4)
Germany from Disunion to Reunification
57(4)
Italy Pursues Political Stability
61(2)
The Vatican Faces the Winds of Change
The Low Countries, Spain, and Greece
63(1)
Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Icelanders, and Finns: Similarity and Difference Among the Scandinavians
64(1)
Toward a European Union
65(5)
Summary
70(2)
The Collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
72(17)
The Decline of Marxist Ideology
72(5)
The Soviet Thaw
77(1)
The Soviet Quagmire in Afghanistan
78(2)
The Gorbachev Era
80(2)
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Bloc
82(3)
The End of the Soviet Union
85(2)
The Disintegration of Yugoslavia
87(1)
Summary
88(1)
Arts and Sciences
89(29)
The Revolution in Physics
89(4)
The Revolution in Biology
93(4)
Modern and Postmodern Architecture
97(4)
After Modern Art
101(2)
History, Fiction, Film, and Social Criticism After 1945
103(8)
Popular Music from 45 RPM to I-Pod
111(3)
Postmodern Literary Theory
114(2)
Summary
116(2)
Europe Since 9/11
118(30)
Globalization
118(9)
9/11
127(5)
The War in Afghanistan
132(2)
The Crisis over Iraq
134(7)
The Iraq War---Al Qaeda Strikes in Europe
The Enlargement of the European Union
141(4)
Europe's Demographic Prospects
145(1)
Summary
146(2)
Suggested Readings 148(15)
Index 163

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