1st Edition

Themes in Modern European History, 1890-1945

Edited By Nicholas Atkin, Michael Biddiss Copyright 2009
416 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

Themes in Modern European History, 1890 – 1945 brings together an international team of scholars to address an eclectic range of developments and issues in European history in the period between 1890 and the end of the Second World War. This lively collection of essays adopts a thematic approach, in order to explore comprehensively a period of great change and upheaval in Europe.... Read more

1. Conspectus Nicholas Atkin  2. East and West Detmar Klein  3. Social and Economic Developments, 1890–1914 Pamela Pilbeam  4. Intellectual and Cultural Revolution Michael Biddiss  5. Explaining the First World War: Debating the Causes Gordon Martel  6. The First World War and its Impact Frank Tallett  7. The Soviet Union and Bolshevism Abroad Mat Worley  8. Fascism Costa Pinto  9. Withstanding Extremes, Britain and France, 1918–1940 Nicholas Atkin  10. The Origins of the Second World War Steven Morewood  11. The Experience of Total War, 1939-45 Giacomo Lichtner  12. Europe and the Wider World Michael Biddiss

Biography

Nicholas Atkin is Professor of Modern European history at the University of Reading. He has published extensively on twentieth-century France and has recently edited The Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth Century Europe. He is currently writing a history of British tourism to France since the 1850s. 

Michael Biddiss is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Reading General Editor of the Routledge ‘Themes’ series. His previous publications include Disease and History (co-author, 2000); and The Humanities in the New Millennium (co-editor, 2000).