Description
Book SynopsisA concise people’s history of Europe spanning from the First World War to today
Trade Review'A vivid and passionate fresco of a century of tumultuous European social history'
-- Pietro Basso, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
'Raquel Varela succeeds in explaining the disasters of European neoliberalism, without ever romanticising the social pact that went before it. In a work with a rich sense of historical possibility, she shows how every inch of social progress had to be fought for and how little it ever had to do with the European institutions'
-- David Broder, 'Jacobin'
Table of ContentsForeword by Kevin Murphy
Preface
1. The War of Wars, the Revolution of Revolutions, 1917
2. ‘Man, Controller of the Universe’: The Crisis of 1929, the Revolutions of the 1930s and Nazism
3. Midnight in the Century: The Second World War
4. The 1945 European Social Pact
5. Anti-Colonial Revolutions
6. Crisis and Revolution: From May 68 to the Carnation Revolution
7. The End of the Social Pact (1981–2018)
Conclusion
Notes
Index
