| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 382 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"A Manly, Inc. Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Age of progress -- Americanization -- Britain as part of Europe -- Class identities -- Communists intellectuals -- Cultural watershed -- Economic and political changes -- European integration -- European socialism -- Existentialism -- The Far Right after 1945 -- French and Russian Revolutions -- Genocide -- German cultural figures -- German economic crisis -- Great Depression -- Green Parties -- International fascism -- International justice -- Leninism v. Stalinism -- Mass education and culture -- Nationalism -- Nazism and communism -- Origins of fascism -- Pacifism -- Public intellectuals -- Public opinion -- Punishing former communists -- Russia as part of the West -- Short twentieth century -- Spanish Civil War -- Stalin's economic policies -- Thought and culture -- Ukranian famine -- Welfare state -- Women. |
| Summary |
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers twentieth-century European social and political movements. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments. |
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Social movements -- Europe.
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World politics -- 20th century.
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World history.
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History, Modern -- 20th century.
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Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Europe -- Foreign relations.
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Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
DuQuenoy, Paul, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History in dispute, Volume 17. Detroit, Mich. : St. James Press, c2004 9781558624801 |
| ISBN |
9781558627215 (electronic book) |
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1558627219 (electronic book) |
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9781558624801 |
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1558624805 |
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