{"product_id":"europe-in-the-era-of-two-world-wars-9780691141220","title":"Europe in the Era of Two World Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the 20th century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? This book explains the rise and fall of the men of violence whose wars and civil wars twice devastated large areas of the European continent and Russia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a most thought-provoking and penetrating study, based on superb scholarship and written by a masterly mind.\"--Stanley Hoffman, Foreign Affairs \"[Berghahn] writes essentially and succinctly about what he characterizes as the 'men of violence' and the horrors they wrought upon the world. Focusing on German leaders and military and their conduct in wars and civil strife, Berghahn argues powerfully for German responsibility in WWI as well as WWII.\"--Choice \"In an insightful discussion, [Berghahn] makes direct connections between German brutalities in Africa (against the Hereros, for example) and aggressive, social Darwinist modes of thought that produced the Schlieffen Plan and other indications of the increasing European propensity to resort to violence... Berghahn's spare and gripping account of these events incorporates much recent historical literature.\"--Hunt Toohey, Independent Review \"An outstanding ... thoughtful, highly stimulating ... [and] convincing essay about the long epoch of violence during the past century.\"--Hartmut Kaelble, H-Soz-u-Kult \"Berghahn's book is well worth reading. It will also function well in university courses on modern Europe as a short, well-argued and provocative supplement to traditional textbooks. Being very clearly plotted as the narrative of a struggle between good and evil, it might even serve to illustrate a few of Hayden White's points about the use of literary conventions by historians.\"--Nils Arne Sorensen, European History Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION 1      CHAPTER ONE: Europe before World War I, 1895-1914 7  Industrial Economy and Civil Society 7  The Curse of Ethnonationalism and Colonialism 15  Premonitions of Total War 26      CHAPTER TWO: Violence Unleashed, 1914-1923 33  Mobilization, 1914 33  The Totalization of Warfare 39  The Wars after the Great War 47      CHAPTER THREE: Recivilization and Its Failure, 1924-1935 58  The Short Dream of Prosperity for All 58  Militarism 70  The Stalinist Experiment in Violence 75      CHAPTER FOUR: Violence without Bounds, 1935-1945 82  Total Mobilization in Peacetime 82  Terroristic Warfare 99  Visions of a New European Order 113      CONCLUSIONS 130  Notes 143  Selected Bibliography 153  Chronology 155  Index 159","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403767750999,"sku":"9780691141220","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691141220.jpg?v=1730484484","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/europe-in-the-era-of-two-world-wars-9780691141220","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}