ABSTRACT

Suitable for 19th and 20th century Europe/modern Europe undergraduate courses.This well-established and immensely successful book provides a standard introduction to the subject by one of Britain's most popular historians. Social, economic and social history are skillfully integrated within a framework of political narrative history.

chapter 1|7 pages

What this book is about

chapter 2|33 pages

Europe in 1880

chapter 3|19 pages

The ancien régime

chapter 4|37 pages

International competition, 1880-1901

chapter 5|47 pages

Before 1914: Constitutional states

chapter 6|34 pages

Autocracy and conservatism

chapter 7|22 pages

Anti-traditional forces

chapter 8|20 pages

International relations, 1901-14

chapter 9|33 pages

The Great War

chapter 10|32 pages

Postwar Europe

chapter 11|29 pages

Economy and society, 1918-39

chapter 12|22 pages

Democratic Europe

chapter 13|46 pages

Totalitarianism and dictatorship

chapter 14|22 pages

Social and cultural change, 1918-39

chapter 15|39 pages

The approach to the second world war

chapter 16|23 pages

Europe and the second world war

chapter 17|22 pages

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