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