Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present

A Narrative History with Documents

Bonnie G. Smith

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781350029576
• Edition: 2
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

This newly updated and improved edition of Bonnie G. Smith's classic textbook provides the most authoritative history available of Europe in a global context during the 20th and 21st centuries. It cleverly incorporates elements of political, social, cultural, economic and intellectual history and presents an integrated history with detailed coverage right across the continent. Including 131 images and 23 maps, Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present is organized around key themes within a chronological chapter structure that is easy to follow. Smith's balanced treatment of the subject allows for a comprehensive assessment of the positive and negative developments in European history over the period, as well as the wider impact of this in the world at large. The book also includes picture essays and document sections, which provide variety and foreground the importance of primary sources, and useful end-of-chapter further readings for students who wish to investigate specific topics in greater depth. The enhanced 2nd edition contains: * A new chapter on the 21st-century issues that have challenged and continue to challenge Europe
* More material on globalization, the end of the Cold War, European countercultures and various other topics
* Historiographic updates throughout Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to the Present is the definitive guide to Europe and its place in the world since 1900 for students and scholars alike.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps, Charts, and Tables
• Preface for Instructors
• Introduction for Students
• 1 Imperial Europe at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
• 2 Modernity and the Unsettling of Europe, 1900–14
• 3 World War I and the Russian Revolution, 1914–22
• 4 A World Transformed, 1920–29
• 5 Facing Global Economic Depression, 1929–39
• 6 World War II and the Collapse of Europe, 1939–45
• 7 Devastated Europe in an Age of Cold War, 1945–63
• 8 The Rebirth of Prosperity and the Rise of the Welfare State in the 1950s and Early 1960s
• 9 Postimperial Europe, c. 1947–80
• 10 Postindustrial Europe and Its Critics, 1965–79
• 11 Europe Changes Course, the 1980s and Beyond
• 12 Europe in the Global Age
• 13 Twenty-First-Century Challenges
• Index
• Copyright