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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
List of Maps | p. xi |
List of Illustrations | p. xii |
Acknowledgments for the Second edition | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments for the First edition | p. xiv |
Introduction: Europe's Troubles | p. 1 |
The War and its Legacy | p. 8 |
Conquest and Occupation | p. 8 |
Collaboration | p. 12 |
Resistance | p. 14 |
Liberation, 1943-1945 | p. 17 |
Neutral Europe | p. 21 |
The Human and Physical Cost | p. 22 |
Judgment | p. 26 |
Conclusion | p. 29 |
Europe between the Powers, 1945-1953 | p. 30 |
From Grand Alliance to Cold War, 1941-1947 | p. 30 |
The German Question | p. 35 |
Marshall Aid and Economic Security | p. 40 |
NATO and the Defense of the West | p. 44 |
Culture and the Cold War | p. 47 |
Conclusion | p. 50 |
Restoration, Reconstruction, and Revolution: Europe, 1945-1950 | p. 51 |
A New Europe? | p. 51 |
Politics in Western Europe | p. 53 |
Western Europe: Reconstruction and Welfare | p. 60 |
Scandinavia: Paths to Security | p. 62 |
Southern Europe: Dictatorship and Civil War | p. 64 |
The Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe | p. 67 |
Between East and West: Finland, Austria, and Yugoslavia | p. 72 |
Conclusion | p. 74 |
Consolidating Western Europe, 1950-1963 | p. 75 |
Fears and Aspirations | p. 75 |
Towards Affluence: The Economy and Social Change | p. 78 |
From Korea to Berlin: The International Context | p. 82 |
"No Experiments": West Germany, Britain, and Italy | p. 87 |
France and Algeria | p. 91 |
Social Democratic Alternatives | p. 94 |
Conclusion | p. 96 |
Western Europe in the 1960s | p. 98 |
The Cultural Divide | p. 98 |
The New Society: Economic and Social Change | p. 103 |
The Limits to Reform: Italy, West Germany, and Britain | p. 106 |
The Enigmatic Republic: France, 1958-1968 | p. 109 |
Revolt: Students and Workers, 1967-1969 | p. 111 |
The Persistence of Dictatorship: Spain, Portugal, and Greece | p. 116 |
Conclusion | p. 118 |
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, from 1953 to the 1970s | p. 120 |
New Societies, Recurrent Crises | p. 120 |
Khrushchev and de-Stalinization | p. 126 |
The Crisis of 1956: Poland and Hungary | p. 128 |
The Start of the Brezhnev Era | p. 131 |
East European Alternatives: Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania | p. 133 |
From Prague Spring to Brezhnev Doctrine | p. 136 |
Conclusion | p. 139 |
Western Europe in the 1970s: Downturn and Détente | p. 140 |
The Era of Détente | p. 140 |
Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, 1969-1974 | p. 142 |
The New Economic Insecurity | p. 145 |
West European Politics | p. 148 |
The Rise of Terrorism, c. 1970-1981 | p. 152 |
Intellectual and Cultural Developments | p. 154 |
Transitions: Spain, Portugal, and Greece | p. 156 |
Conclusion | p. 161 |
Western Europe in the 1980s: The Era of Thatcher, Mitterrand, and Kohl | p. 162 |
Towards the Post-Industrial Society | p. 162 |
Postmodern Cultures? | p. 165 |
The New Cold War | p. 167 |
Thatcher's Britain | p. 168 |
Mitterrand's France | p. 171 |
Helmut Kohl and West Germany | p. 175 |
Breaking the Mold? New Political Movements | p. 179 |
Southern Europe | p. 181 |
Conclusion | p. 185 |
European Integration: From Rome to Maastricht, 1957-1992 | p. 186 |
Perspectives on Integration | p. 186 |
The Foundation of the EEC | p. 192 |
De Gaulle and the EEC, 1958-1969 | p. 194 |
Stagnation, 1970-1984 | p. 197 |
The Single European Act and "1992" | p. 199 |
Maastricht and After | p. 202 |
Conclusion | p. 204 |
The Fall of the Communist Regimes: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1980-1991 | p. 205 |
öAll that is solid melts into air" | p. 205 |
Poland and Solidarity, 1980-1981 | p. 208 |
Gorbachev and Soviet Reform, 1985-1990 | p. 211 |
1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe | p. 215 |
German Reunification, 1989-1990 | p. 219 |
The End of the Soviet Union, 1990-1991 | p. 223 |
Conclusion | p. 224 |
Europe after the Cold War | p. 226 |
Building Europe? | p. 226 |
West European Politics | p. 230 |
Troubled Waters: Italy and Germany | p. 233 |
Western Europe: The Economy and EMU | p. 235 |
Post-Communism: Eastern Europe and the Former USSR | p. 237 |
The Balkan Wars | p. 242 |
Conclusion | p. 246 |
Europe in the New Millennium | p. 248 |
Diversity and Union | p. 248 |
Memory and the "European Identity" | p. 252 |
The "War on Terror" and the Security of Europe | p. 256 |
West European Politics | p. 259 |
The Politics of Intolerance | p. 264 |
On Europe's Borders | p. 266 |
From Financial Crisis to European Crisis | p. 269 |
Conclusion | p. 273 |
Notes | p. 275 |
Guide to Further Reading | p. 292 |
Index | p. 301 |
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