Gilbert, Felix, 1905-1991.

The end of the European era : 1890 to the present / Felix Gilbert, David Clay Large. - 5th ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2002. - xi, 668 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-631) and index.

Pt.1. Europe's apogee. The beginning of a new century ; Politics and society, 1890-1914 ; The First World War. -- Pt.2. The peace that failed. Peacemaking ; The era of stabilization ; The economic crisis and the rise of Nazism ; Toward the inevitable conflict ; The Second World War. -- Pt.3. Rebuilding Europe. Postwar uncertainties ; Reconstruction and revolt: the 1950s. -- Pt.4. Resurgent Europe. Europe's abundant decade: the 1960s ; The years of disillusionment: 1967-1973 ; The decade of détente: 1969-1979 ; Western Europe in the troubled 1980s ; A new order in Eastern Europe ; Europe in the 1990s: new beginnings, old agonies.

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World politics--20th century.


Europe--Politics and government--20th century.

D443 / .G473 2002