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Postwar : a history of Europe since 1945 / Tony Judt.

Summary:

Provides a history of contemporary Europe, covering thirty-four countries over a span of sixty years, and includes discussion of the region's economic development, culture, and politics.

Record details

ISBN: 1594200653
ISBN: 9781594200656
Physical Description: xv, 878 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 Post-War: 1945-1953 -- I Legacy of War 13 -- II Retribution 41 -- III Rehabilitation of Europe 63 -- IV Impossible Settlement 100 -- V Coming of the Cold War 129 -- VI Into the Whirlwind 165 -- VII Culture Wars 197 -- Coda: The End of Old Europe 226 -- Part 2 Prosperity and Its Discontents: 1953-1971 -- VIII Politics of Stability 241 -- IX Lost Illusions 278 -- X Age of Affluence 324 -- XI Social Democratic Hour 360 -- XII Spectre of Revolution 390 -- XIII End of the Affair 422 -- Part 3 Recessional: 1971-1989 -- XIV Diminished Expectations 453 -- XV Politics in a New Key 484 -- XVI A Time of Transition 504 -- XVII New Realism 535 -- XVIII Power of the Powerless 559 -- XIX End of the Old Order 585 -- Part 4 After the Fall: 1989-2005 -- XX A Fissile Continent 637 -- XXI Reckoning 665 -- XXII Old Europe-and the New 701 -- XXIII Varieties of Europe 749 -- XXIV Europe as a Way of Life 777 -- Epilogue: From the House of the Dead: An Essay on Modern European Memory 803.