Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time - Softcover

Wasserstein, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019873073X ISBN 13: 9780198730736

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2009

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This epic account of Europe in the 20th century grabs the reader with snappy chapters packed with telling detaila nd articulate assessment. (Christopher Hirst, The Independent)

Reseña del editor:

The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of respect and opportunity.

It was a century of barbarism and civilization, of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental spoliation, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression - and of individualism resurgent.

Covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic change, Barbarism and Civilization is by turns grim, humorous, surprising, and enlightening: a window on the century we have left behind and the earliest years of its troubled successor.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 019873073X
• ISBN 13: 9780198730736
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 928