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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 ContentsPreface 1. The War of the Wars, the Revolution of Revolutions, 1917 2. The Controlling Man 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. Anticolonial Revolutions 6. Crisis and Revolution: from May 1968 to the Carnation Revolution 7. The End of the Social Pact (1981-2018) Conclusion
