Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 - 2000 (Blackwell History of Europe) - Hardcover

Buchanan, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 063122162X ISBN 13: 9780631221623

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

Covering the period from the end of the Second World War up to the Millennium, this book offers an integrated overview of the history of Europe, east and west, in the second half of the twentieth century. The text:

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• Deals not only with developments in politics, economics, and international relations, but also examines social and cultural trends
  
• Covers the history of central and eastern Europe in depth, as well as that of western Europe
  
• Describes the impact of the Second World War on Europe
  
• Discusses in detail the impact of the Cold War across the continent.
  
• Recounts the rapid and dramatic changes in eastern Europe and the USSR that led to the end of the Cold War
  
• Takes the reader right up to the end of the century, offering a new interpretation of Europe in the 1990s

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Covering the period from the end of the Second World War to the Millennium, this book offers an integrated overview of the history of Europe, east and west.

The volume opens with a discussion of the impact of the Second World War in Europe, demonstrating how the foundations of the post-war order were laid in the final phase of the war. It then proceeds chronologically through a detailed discussion of the Cold War, the divergent histories of eastern and western Europe between the 1950s and the 1980s, and the moves towards integration that accelerated as the century drew to a close. The author examines the rapid and dramatic changes in eastern Europe and the USSR that led to the end of the Cold War, and offers a new interpretation of the 1990s that focuses on the emergence of a united ‘Europe’ in the European Union, on the elusive quest for a ‘Third Way’, and on the political and economic transition in eastern Europe.

About the Author:

Tom Buchanan is Reader in Modern History and Politics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Kellogg College. His previous publications include Britain and the Spanish Civil War (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 063122162X
• ISBN 13: 9780631221623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 376