{"product_id":"europe-18901945-9780195154504","title":"Europe 18901945","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis              is a compact, accessible, general history of the greater European world in the first half of the last century. It features close study of politics, society, culture, and gender issues. The book also includes an analysis of the two great wars that dominated the period, and discussion of the world that they made.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. THE NEW AGE ; European Peoples ; The Creative Passion ; The New Sciences ; New Visions of Society ; Freud and the Science of the Mind ; New Women ; Summary ; 2. THE MODERNIZATION OF NATIONS ; Political Ideas ; Britain: Toward Democracy and Crisis ; France: The Third Republic, 1890-1914 ; Italy: Unity and Frustration ; Germany: The Nation-State ; Austria Hungary: Dividing Humanity into Nations ; Imperial Russia: The Struggle for Modernity ; The Autocratic Monarchies in 1914 ; The United States: The Emerging Great Power ; Summary ; 3. GREAT WAR, GREAT REVOLUTION ; Causes of the War ; The Course of the War ; The Home Fronts ; The Peace Settlements ; The Russian Revolution of 1917 ; The Environment ; Summary ; 4. BETWEEN THE WARS: A TWENTY-YEAR CRISIS ; The First Triumph of Fascism: Italy ; The Weimar Republic: Germany, 1918-1933 ; Germany Under Hitler, 1933-1939 ; Authoritarianism in Iberia ; Successor States to the Habsburg Empire ; Other Authoritarian Regimes in Europe ; The Soviet Union ; Summary ; 5. THE DEMOCRACIES AND THE NON-WESTERN WORLD ; Great Britain ; France ; The United States ; The East Meets the West: Western History and World History ; Summary ; 6. THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH ; International Politics Between the Wars ; The Road to War, 1931-1939 ; World War II, 1939-1942 ; Victory for the United Nations ; Aftermath ; Summary ; Chronology ; Suggested Readings","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524575273303,"sku":"9780195154504","price":101.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195154504.jpg?v=1731857327","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/europe-18901945-9780195154504","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}