{"product_id":"out-of-ashes-9780691173078","title":"Out of Ashes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 Bronis?aw Geremek Prize, College of Europe Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in European \u0026amp; World History, Association of American Publishers \"A sweeping survey.\"--New York Times \"[Out of Ashes] should be on the shelf of everyone seeking a panoramic, narrative guide to history's most violent century. This comprehensive history of 20th-century Europe is bound to become the standard work on its subject: a bold, major achievement.\"--Publishers Weekly, starred review \"Well-contained and richly detailed.\"--Kirkus \"All told, this magnum opus is the outstanding achievement of a scholar who is himself in his early seventies--a good age for historians. Jarausch is one of the very few who have dared to write a history of Europe covering the entire long 20th century. Strictly speaking only Mark Mazower has run this risk in the Anglophone world. Konrad Jarausch presents an original work with a consistent conception, a completely convincing narrative of its own, a high analytical grasp of the grand lines as well as of the details as well as enormous knowledge and incredible command of the literature. Based on considerable skepticism and realism [it sends] a fairly positive message for Americans and Europeans about the recent European past.\"--Hartmut Kaelble, H-Solz-Kult \"Jarausch has written a groundbreaking study of 20th-century European history.\"--Choice \"Konrad Jarausch's ambitious and sprawling new book, Out of Ashes, seems like a text for our times... Jarausch examines Europe's recent past, pursuing a fundamental question--namely, what is modernization?--that connects the continent's violently ideological 'dark times' to its postwar renewal and ambiguous future.\"--Commonweal \"Jarausch's book really comes into its own when dealing with the second half of the century. Here, he wonderfully pulls together various strands of the story of European integration and decolonisation, Cold War and the creation of the welfare state, deindustrialisation and globalisation.\"--Srinath Raghavan, Open Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii  Introduction: The European Paradox 1  Part I: Promise of Progress, 1900-1929  1. Global Domination 19  2. Breakdown of Peace 46  3. Waging Total War 73  4. Bolshevik Revolution 102  5. Democratic Hopes 128  6. Fascist Alternative 155  7. Modernist Provocations 181  Part II: Turn to Self-Destruction, 1929-45  8. Devastating Depression 209  9. Stalinist Modernization 235  10. Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft 261  11. Unleashing World War II 287  12. Axis Conquest 314  13. Nazi Holocaust 341  14. Bitter Victory 369  Part III: Surprising Recovery, 1945-73  15. Democratic Renewal 399  16. Dictating Communism 426  17. Cold War Crises 452  18. Disappointing Decolonization 480  19. Economic Integration 506  20. Pop and Prosperity 533  21. Planning Social Reform 559  Part IV: Confronting Globalization, 1973-2000  22. Revolt against Modernity 587  23. Postindustrial Transition 613  24. Return to Detente 639  25. Peaceful Revolution 666  26. Transforming the East 694  27. Global Challenges 721  28. Prospects for the Twenty-first Century 747  Postscript: A Chastened Modernity 773  Acknowledgments 789  Notes 791  Index 851","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403839283543,"sku":"9780691173078","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691173078.jpg?v=1730484680","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/out-of-ashes-9780691173078","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}