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Europe's Troubled Peace
1945 to the Present

Tom Buchanan (Author)

9780470655788, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 20 January 2012

336 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.59 kg

This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement.

  • Thoroughly revised and expanded, this integrated history of Europe now covers the end of the Second World War up to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century
  • Includes new sections on immigration and ethnicity in Europe after the Cold War, and the role of historical memory in contemporary Europe
  • A final new chapter assesses the role of Europe within the wider world of the twenty-first century, the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement
  • Covers the history of central and eastern Europe in depth, as well as that of Western Europe
  • Discusses in detail the impact of the Cold War across the continent

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Europe's Troubles
1. The War and its Legacy
2. Europe between the Powers, 1945-1953
3. Restoration, Reconstruction and Revolution: Europe, 1945-1950
4. Consolidating Western Europe, 1950-1963
5. Western Europe in the 1960s
6. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, from 1953 to the 1970s
7. Western Europe in the 1970s: Downturn and Détente
8. Western Europe in the 1980s: The Era of Thatcher, Mitterrand and Kohl
9. European Integration: From Rome to Maastricht, 1957-1992
10. The Fall of the Communist Regimes: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1980-1991
11. Europe after the Cold War
12. Europe in the new millennium

Subject Areas: History [HB]
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