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Europe's Long Century: Volume 1, 1900-1945 Di Scala

Europe's Long Century: Volume 1, 1900-1945 By Di Scala

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Europe's Long Century: Volume 1, 1900-1945: Society, Politics, and Culture by Di Scala

The twentieth century has been interpreted as a short century marked by extremes. According to this view, the century lasted only from 1914 to 1989 or 1991. These dates coincide with the rise and fall of communism that came to power in Russia in 1917 and ended with the fall of the Berlin wall (1989) or that of the Soviet Union (1991). Thus, the concept of a short century is unduly influenced by a Cold War perspective. In Europe's Long Century, Spencer Di Scala presents an alternative view that will be more helpful to undergraduate history students in the twenty-first-century: namely, that twentieth century Europe was actually a long century lasting approximately from 1900 to 2000 with patterns and antecedents discernible before the century began and that continue to be elaborated today.Comprehensive, current, and affordable, Europe's Long Century integrates the histories of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans that are often neglected in similar treatments. It also thoroughly covers the role of science in shaping modern European life, and the book's biographical sketches profile the lives of important--though not always well known--people who influenced Europe's long century.

Europe's Long Century: Volume 1, 1900-1945 Reviews

In Europe's Long Century, Spencer Di Scala persuasively argues that the last hundred years of European history was not a 'short century,' one marked only by the rise and fall of communism. A longer history was unfolding. The trends and main issues we are coping with today have deep roots: science and its dilemmas, migrations, ethnic and religious conflicts, and the hopes and disillusions of an integrated Europe in a multipolar world. Di Scala has written an innovative, comprehensive, and courageous book. After reading it, we know more of our history and more of ourselves.--Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy and Professor Emeritus at the European University Institute of Florence Europe's Long Century is in the front ranks of modern European textbooks. It is accessible and engaging, and is the product of substantial research and reflection. This book delves into geographic and thematic corners of the continent that are often neglected. And while comprehensive in its coverage, it manages to remain concise.--John Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Europe's Long Century is a well-written survey that nicely balances relevant themes and countries/regions covered. It gives students the necessary tools for doing further research. Each chapter is clear and concise, written in straightforward language. This will be a real asset for students and instructors alike.--David A. Messenger, University of Wyoming This is a well written and organized text on 20th century Europe, although rather sympathetic to the socialist camp. The author makes a noble effort to present the events in Eastern Europe in greater detail than other textbooks of this genre. -- Eugene Boia, Cleveland State University It is the most thorough textbook dealing with Twentieth Century Europe I have seen. -- Robin Underhill, University of Delaware

About Di Scala

Spencer Di Scala is Professor of History and past graduate program director at University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of several books, including Italy from Revolution to Republic (2009), European Political Thought: 1815-1989 (1998), Italian Socialism Between Politics and History (1996), and Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi (OUP, 1988).

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments List of Maps List of Abbreviations INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS EUROPE? Europe as a Cultural Conception The Idea of Europe and Christianity The European Ideal Becomes Secularized Hegemony versus Consensus The Ideal of Unity between the Two World Wars The European Concept during the Late Twentieth Century A Post-Cold War Perspective BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY PART ONE: THE EUROPEAN AGE 1. DECEMBER 14, 1900 The Twentieth Century: Science and Ideology European Society Changing Cultural and Political Outlooks BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Anna Kuliscioff Cofounder of Italian Socialism Max Planck An Upright German 2. THE DEMOCRACIES AND THEIR DILEMMAS Britain: Accommodation and Militancy France Muddles Through Italian Democracy in the Making BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Emmeline Pankhurst Votes for Women! Jean-Joseph-Marie-Auguste Jaures Martyr 3. THE AUTHORITARIAN STATES The German Empire: Greater Prussia That Ramshackle Realm: Austria-Hungary Imperial Russia: Institutions Are of No Importance BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht of Hohenzollern Failure Karl Lueger Mayor of Vienna 4. FOREIGN POLICIES Britain: Managing Decline World Policy (Weltpolitik) France's Lost Provinces Showdown in the Balkans Italy Searches for Security BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Theophile Delcasse Warrior Diplomat Francis Joseph of Hapsburg Unlucky 5. EUROPEAN PERIPHERIES Scandinavia: An Ideal Unity Different Roads: The Low Countries The Making of a Conservative: Switzerland The Iberian States Southeastern Europe BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Niels Henrik David Bohr Uncle Nick Emile Vandervelde Evolutionary Socialist PART TWO: END OF HEGEMONY 6. WORLD WAR Imperialism and Diplomacy: From Crisis to Crisis History of a History: Causes of World War I Combat! The Home Fronts The War Ends BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley A Casualty of War Erich Maria Remarque But now, for the first time, people learned what it was really like 7. WAR'S IMMEDIATE IMPACT: RUSSIAN AND OTHER REVOLUTIONS War and the Russian Revolutions The German Revolution End of the War in Germany The Struggle for Power Foundation of the Weimar Republic Revolution in Austria The Hungarian Revolution Continuous Rebellion: Artists and Scientists BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov A Sealed Train Rosa Luxemburg Marxist Martyr 8. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE The Paris Peace Conference The Territorial Consequences Economic Consequences The Moral Consequences The League of Nations BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Georges Clemenceau Tiger Sidney Sonnino Failed Diplomatist 9. HARD LANDINGS: FROM CRISIS TO FALSE PROSPERITY Britain: Back to 1914 France's Quest for Security Italy: From Red Biennium to Fascism Weimar's Three Original Sins The USSR: The Crisis of NEP BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES John Maynard Keynes Savior of Capitalism Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini Young Rebel PART THREE: AN AGE OF DICTATORS 10. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES The Great Depression British Democracy Troubled France Scandinavia: Toward Social Democracy Marking Time: The Low Countries and Switzerland BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES James Ramsay MacDonald Labour's Nonperson Prime Minister Leon Blum Popular Front 11. THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE The Victors of the Versailles Settlement The Versailles Settlement's Losers The Aegean and the Adriatic Iberia BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Josef Klemens Pilsudski Polish Dictator Thomas Garrigue Masaryk European Democrat 12. MUSSOLINI'S FASCISM Fascist Practice Fascist Ideology BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Edmondo Rossoni Fascist Labor Margherita Sarfatti Dictator of the Figurative Arts 13. STALIN'S COMMUNISM Communist Ideology Communist Practice BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Communist Theoretician Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai Red Rose of the Revolution 14. THE NAZI ASSAULT ON WEIMAR Weimar's Crumbling Support Ascent of the Nazi Party The Collapse of Weimar Installing the Dictatorship BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Adolf Hitler Down and Out in Vienna Franz von Papen Politico 15. HITLER'S NAZISM Foundations of Nazism Kristallnacht Nazi Theory and Practice Everyday Life BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Gertrud Scholtz-Klink Unrepentant! Hermann Goering Nazi Chieftain 16. INTERWAR SOCIETY AND CULTURE Society Entertainment and High Culture Technology and Society Pure Science: Revolution and Travail BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Ettore Majorana The Enduring Mystery Lise Meitner The Role of Insight 17. DIPLOMACY BETWEEN THE WARS: THE COLLAPSE OF PEACE The Continent in the 1920s Correcting Versailles The Hitler Revolution From Crisis to Crisis A New War BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Gustav Stresemann Fulfillment Aristide Briand Man of Peace, Father of Europe 18. THE GERMAN TIDE OVER EUROPE Confrontation German Successes The Home Fronts BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Heinz Wilhelm Guderian Panzer General Maurice Gustave Gamelin Historical Footnote 19. INSIDE HITLER'S EUROPE: MILITARY OCCUPATION AND GENOCIDE Short and Long-Term Aims Military Occupation in the East Military Occupation in the West The Holocaust Genocide BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Heinrich Himmler Architect of Genocide Primo Levi 174517 20. HOW THE WAR WAS WON Weapons Battles Resistance The Future Ideology: Nationalism's Handmaiden? BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Erwin Rommel The Desert Fox Bernard Law Montgomery Hero of El Alamein [End Volume 1 / Begin Volume 2] PART FOUR: DUAL EUROPE 21. MAKING POSTWAR EUROPE Soviet Dominance in the East The West: American Influence The Cold War BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Klement Gottwald Stalinist Josip Broz Tito Communist Nationalist 22. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND POLITICAL STABILIZATION IN THE WEST Defense Mechanisms Economic Integration The Community: New Europe's Core Associated Countries BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Jean Monnet Cognac and Europe Konrad Adenauer Senior Statesman 23. FAILURE OF EFTA AND EXPANSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EFTA Characteristics of the Seven The Disappearing Periphery BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES James Harold Wilson Reluctant European Kurt Waldheim Austria in the Dock 24. DECOLONIZATION Origins of Decolonization Death by War Failed Transformations BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Frantz Fanon Language, Peasants, and Revolution 25. STALINISM AND ACTUALLY EXISTING SOCIALISM Guiding Principles The East European Revolution Stalinism in Eastern Europe Actually Existing Socialism in the USSR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Georgi Dimitrov Master in Ideology Ana Rabinovici Pauker Communist Nonperson 26. DE-STALINIZATION AND DESTABILIZATION Stalin's Successors Destabilization in Eastern Europe Khrushchev's Dilemma Restricted Decentralization BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Nikita Sergeievich Khrushchev Peasant Wit Alexander Dubcek Brief Spring 27. THE SHIFTING ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE WEST Economic Quandaries The Thatcher Era in Britain Mitterrand's Unintended Revolution Italy's Triple Revolution Keeping the Balance in Germany Meeting the Challenge BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher No Interpreter Needed Francois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand A Very Good Dancer 28. CULTURAL CHANGE AND EXTREMISM IN THE WEST Expanding Opportunities and Growing Protest Discontent in the West The 1968 Revolts Terrorism and Society Growth of Feminism Return to Normalcy The Greens BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Mara Cagol Co-Founder, Red Brigades Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand e Beauvoir, Philosopher-Feminist 29. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE Scandinavian Social Democracy Central Europe The Lesser-Developed Countries European Union: The Acceleration of History BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Joerg Haider Embarrassment or Admonition? Andreas Papandreou Democratic Fighter 30. EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY Postwar Society Discontent in the West The Changing Family Immigration BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES John XXIII The Good Pope Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago 31. CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Science and Technology European Culture Euromarxism BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Jean-Paul Sartre Model of an Intellectual Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmuller von Elgg Spanol von Braucich Outrageous! 32. STAGNATION AND FAILED REFORM IN THE EAST Stagnation in the Soviet Union Beginning the End: Poland Mikhail Gorbachev's Failed Revolution BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Our Regime Resembles A Cancer Cell Nicolae Ceausescu Gigantomania 33. THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM Why the Dominoes Fell The Process of Collapse I: Implosion The Process of Collapse II: Explosion The Process of Collapse III: Russia versus the Soviet Union BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Vaclav Havel Velvet Revolution Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Maverick 34. EUROPE IN A GLOBAL AGE: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS The New Germany The New Russia The Balkan and Southeastern Hot Spots Unfinished Business The European Union's March The Larger East European Economies and the EU What Is Europe? BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

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CIN0199778515G
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Europe's Long Century: Volume 1, 1900-1945: Society, Politics, and Culture by Di Scala
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