A Social History of Twentieth- Century Europe

A Social History of Twentieth- Century Europe
Author: Béla Tomka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415628431

A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education, religion and culture. It also addresses major debates and diverging interpretations of historical and social research regarding the history of European societies in the past one hundred years. Organized in ten thematic chapters, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach, making use of the methods and results of not only history, but also sociology, demography, economics and political science. Béla Tomka presents both the diversity and the commonalities of European societies looking not just to Western European countries, but Eastern, Central and Southern European countries as well. A perfect introduction for all students of European history.

Twentieth-Century Europe

Twentieth-Century Europe
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118651383

Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political and economic trends since 1989 and an extensively revised chapter that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since World War II Organized into brief chapters that are suitable for traditional courses or for classes in non-traditional courses that allow for additional material selected by the professor Includes the addition of a variety of supplemental materials such as chronological timelines, maps, and illustrations

A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000

A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000
Author: Hartmut Kaelble
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1845456432

Since 1945 Europe has experienced many periods of turmoil and conflict and as many moments of peace and integration: from the devastation felt in the aftermath of World War II to the recovery in the 1950s and 1960s; to the new challenges in the 1970s and 1980s when neoliberal policies led to fundamental social and economic changes, marked by the effects of the oil shock and widespread unemployment; and then 1989 and after when the existing world order experienced new convulsions. In this brilliant and comprehensive work, the author, one of the best known social historians of Europe, discusses a wide range of subjects, not shying away from controversial topics: family structure, work, consumption, values, migration, inequality, elites, civil society, social movements, media, welfare state, education, and urban policies. He focuses on the fundamental changes European societies underwent in the second half of the twentieth century but also explores what divides Europeans, what unites them, and what sets them apart from the rest of the world. This major historical work will be an important and highly sought-after addition for library collections as well as an important volume for course adoptions.

Twentieth Century Italy

Twentieth Century Italy
Author: Jonathan Dunnage
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317886917

Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines contemporary Italian society in the light of the political and moral crisis of the early 1990s.

A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Author: Eric Dorn Brose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

A new text for courses in 20th century European history, this book is organised chronologically around major themes that emphasise not only political & diplomatic history, but also heavily integrate social & cultural history.

Twentieth Century Europe

Twentieth Century Europe
Author: Spencer Di Scala
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

This work sees the 20th century as a long century, and focuses on the crucial political events of the century. While it gives attention to the high level of violence in Europe, it weaves into the themes the struggle for hegemony, the establishment of common economic and political institutions, and the advance of science. A bibliographical essay in each chapter allows the readers to expand on issues discussed in the text.

Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe

Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe
Author: Chris Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317892259

The twentieth century was one of constant upheaval across Europe. The continent saw wars, revolutions and the collapse of empires and a range of leading figures from Stolypin and Stalin to Chirac, Schroder and Putin. This book provides a detailed yet wide-ranging guide to the turbulent events of twentieth century Europe. Covering the whole period from Tsarist Russia and Imperial Germany to the Balkan Wars of the 1990’s and the final birth of the Euro in 2002, it provides a convenient user-friendly compendium of key fact and figures for the whole of Europe – from the Atlantic to the Urals.

Musicking in Twentieth-Century Europe

Musicking in Twentieth-Century Europe
Author: Klaus Nathaus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110648210

Music has gained the increasing attention of historians. Research has branched out to explore music-related topics, including creative labor, economic histories of music production, the social and political uses of music, and musical globalization. This handbook both covers the history of music in Europe and probes its role for the making of Europe during a "long" twentieth century. It offers concise guidance to key historical trends as well as the most important research on central topics within the field.

Irresistible Empire

Irresistible Empire
Author: Victoria De Grazia
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674031180

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in de Grazia's account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, de Grazia describes how all alternative strategies fell before America's consumer-oriented capitalism--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning.--From publisher description.