EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY is a comprehensive text with a teachable
chronological approach that is a bestseller because of its depth and breadth of coverage
as well as the strength of its scholarship and the reputation of its authors.
With the help of new co-author, Julie Hessler, the Fifth Edition is enhanced to
include greater coverage of the post-war period. In addition, socio-cultural issues have
been brought to the forefront for both Eastern and Western Europe, including youth
movements and feminism.
The first half of the text has been streamlined to allow for these revisions.
Finally, this edition includes several new photographs and updated maps.
Table of Contents
1. Europe at the Zenith.
2. How the Great War Began.
3. The Marne and After, 1914-1917.
4. The Impact of Total War.
5. Revolution, 1917-1920.
6. The Paris Peace Settlement.
7. Revolution against Revolution: Fascism.
8. “Normalcy”: Europe in the 1920s.
9. Mass Culture and High Culture between the Wars.
10. The Great Depression: Troubled Democracies, Rising Dictatorships.
11. Responding to Nazism: European Politics, 1933-1939.
12. Hitler’s Aggressions, Europe’s Appeasement, 1934-1939
13. Hitler’s Europe: Conflict, Collaboration, and Resistance, 1939-1942.
14. From Hot War to Cold War, 1942-1949.
15. Reconstruction in the West, 1945-1949.
16. The Soviet Bloc, 1945-1964.
17. Western Europe, the Cold War, and Decolonization: Adjusting to a Diminished World
Role.
18. Consumer Societies in the West.
19. Western European Politics, 1968-1989: Recession, Democratization, Détente.
20. Western Europe Since 1970: Societies and Cultures Transformed.
21. Science, the Arts, and Intellectual Life.
22. Eastern Europe, 1965-1985: Communism in Decay.
23. The Revolution of 1989 and After.
Conclusion.
752 pages, Paperback