Europe, 1890-1945 : crisis and conflict

Winks, Robin W. (Author). Adams, R. J. Q. (Ralph James Q.), 1943- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780195154504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195154495 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780195154498 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195154509 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: The Value of History -- 1. The New Age -- European Peoples -- The Creative Passion -- The New Sciences -- New Visions of Society -- Freud and the Science of the Mind -- New Women -- 2. The Modernization of Nations -- Political Ideas -- Britain: Toward Democracy and Crisis -- France: The Third Republic, 1890-1914 -- Italy: Unity and Frustration -- Germany: The Nation-State -- Austria-Hungary: Dividing Humanity into Nations -- Imperial Russia: The Struggle for Modernity -- The Autocratic Monarchies in 1914 -- The United States: The Emerging Great Power -- 3. Great War, Great Revolution -- Causes of the War -- The Course of the War -- The Home Fronts -- The Peace Settlements -- The Russian Revolution of 1917 -- The Environment -- 4. Between the Wars: A Twenty-Year Crisis -- The First Triumph of Fascism: Italy -- The Weimar Republic: Germany, 1918-1933 -- Germany Under Hitler, 1933-1939 -- Authoritarianism in Iberia -- Successor States to the Habsburg Empire -- Other Authoritarian Regimes in Europe -- The Soviet Union -- 5. The Democracies and the Non-Western World -- Great Britain -- France -- The United States -- The East Meets the West: Western History and World History -- 6. The Second World War and its Aftermath -- International Politics Between the Wars -- The Road to War, 1931-1939 -- World War II, 1939-1942 -- Victory for the United Nations -- The War in the Pacific -- Aftermath.