The global age : Europe, 1950-2017 / Ian Kershaw.
2018
940.55 K41g 2018
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Title
The global age : Europe, 1950-2017 / Ian Kershaw.
Author
Uniform Title
Roller-coaster
ISBN
9780735223981 (hardcover)
073522398X (hardcover)
9780735223998 (ebook)
073522398X (hardcover)
9780735223998 (ebook)
Published
[New York, New York] : Viking, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xxx, 669 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color photographs), maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
940.55 K41g 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1097548018
(OCoLC)1097548018
(OCoLC)1097548018
Summary
The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Yet Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. There were, by most definitions, striking successes: the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished, and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The interlocking crises after 2008 were the clearest warnings to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability, and, even today, the continent threatens further fracturing. In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across Europe, The Global Age is an endlessly fascinating portrait of the recent past and present, and a cautious look into our future.
Note
"First published in Great Britain as Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-587) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The tense divide
The making of Western Europe
The clamp
Good times
Culture after the catastrophe
Challenges
The turn
Easterly wind of change
Power of the people
New beginnings
Global exposure
Crisis years.
The making of Western Europe
The clamp
Good times
Culture after the catastrophe
Challenges
The turn
Easterly wind of change
Power of the people
New beginnings
Global exposure
Crisis years.
Series
Penguin history of Europe ; 9.
Other Editions
Reproduction of (manifestation): Kershaw, Ian. Roller-coaster [London] : Allen Lane, 2018
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