The Oxford Handbook Of European History 1914 1945

Author : Nicholas Doumanis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191017759

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The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 by Nicholas Doumanis Pdf

The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence and chronic instability. Its symbols were Verdun, Guernica, and Auschwitz. By the end of this dark period, tens of millions of Europeans had been killed and more still had been displaced and permanently traumatized. If the nineteenth century gave Europeans cause to regard the future with a sense of optimism, the early twentieth century had them anticipating the destruction of civilization. The fact that so many revolutions, regime changes, dictatorships, mass killings, and civil wars took place within such a compressed time frame suggests that Europe experienced a general crisis. The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 reconsiders the most significant features of this calamitous age from a transnational perspective. It demonstrates the degree to which national experiences were intertwined with those of other nations, and how each crisis was implicated in wider regional, continental, and global developments. Readers will find innovative and stimulating chapters on various political, social, and economic subjects by some of the leading scholars working on modern European history today.

Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191625275

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The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History by Dan Stone Pdf

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the thirty-five chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by an acknowledged expert, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.

Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Europe / History / 1945-
ISBN : OCLC:785850410

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The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History by Dan Stone Pdf

Author : Robert Gerwarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0199545308

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Twisted Paths by Robert Gerwarth Pdf

A concise look at European history between 1914 and 1945, Twisted Paths: Europe 1914-1945 offers a new and alternative introduction to the period. Featuring a series of succinct interpretations by expert contributors, this volume covers historical developments in all areas within Europe's natural borders--from the Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean, from the Bosporus to the Urals and the Mediterranean. Moving beyond the view that the history of this period can only be understood in terms of catastrophe, it argues for a more balanced perspective, suggesting that both "darker" and "lighter" elements in Europe's history were capable of evolving simultaneously. Without neglecting the more familiar stories of war, genocide, and economic depression, each chapter demonstrates that political stability and regime collapse, social progress and mass poverty, and the crisis of European civilization and remarkable cultural achievements, existed alongside each other. Emphasizing the histories of the smaller states--and the multifaceted nature of the period--Twisted Paths illuminates the diversity of Europe's experiences in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199237395

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History by Helmut Walser Smith Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany.' Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in modern Germany.

Author : Hamish M. Scott
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199597253

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 by Hamish M. Scott Pdf

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume I examines 'Peoples and Place', assessing structural factors such as climate, printing and the revolution in information, social and economic developments, and religion, including chapters on Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam.

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 019926936X

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A History of Public Law in Germany, 1914-1945 by Michael Stolleis Pdf

This history of the discipline of public law in Germany covers three dramatic decades of the Twentieth century. It opens with the First World War, analyses the highly creative years of the Weimar Republic, and recounts the decline of German public law that began in 1933 and extended to the downfall of the Third Reich.

Author : Bardo Fassbender,Anne Peters,Simone Peter,Daniel Högger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199599752

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law by Bardo Fassbender,Anne Peters,Simone Peter,Daniel Högger Pdf

This handbook provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins of public international law. It analyses the modern history of international law from a global perspective, and examines the lives of those who were most responsible for shaping it.

Author : Donald Bloxham,A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191613616

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The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham,A. Dirk Moses Pdf

Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire, Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions. The work is multi-disciplinary, featuring the work of historians, anthropologists, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, and philosophers. Uniquely combining empirical reconstruction and conceptual analysis, this Handbook presents and analyses regions of genocide and the entire field of 'genocide studies' in one substantial volume.

Author : T. C. W. Blanning
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0192854267

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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe by T. C. W. Blanning Pdf

'a superb volume, complete with maps, and tells the story of a continent from the 18th century to the present day.' -Irish Times

Author : T. M. Devine,Jenny Wormald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199563692

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History by T. M. Devine,Jenny Wormald Pdf

A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.

Author : Nadine Rossol,Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845775

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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic by Nadine Rossol,Benjamin Ziemann Pdf

The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and pivotal period of German and European history and a laboratory of modernity. The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic provides an unsurpassed panorama of German history from 1918 to 1933, offering an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the fascinating history of the Weimar Republic.

Author : Hamish M. Scott
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199597260

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Cultures and power by Hamish M. Scott Pdf

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. Volume II engages with philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment, and examines the military and political developments within and beyond the boundaries of Europe.

Author : Simon M. Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0199236704

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The Oxford handbook of modern Russian history by Simon M. Dixon Pdf

Author : Jean-Michel Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198856887

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Networks of Modernity by Jean-Michel Johnston Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880 offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the 'communications revolution' that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon the period 1830-1880, exploring the interactions between the many different actors who developed, administered, and used one of the most important technologies of the period-the electric telegraph. It reveals the channels through which scientific and technical knowledge circulated across Central Europe during the 1830s and 1840s, stimulating both collaboration and confrontation between the scientists, technicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats involved in bringing the telegraph to life. It highlights the technology's impact upon the conduct of trade, finance, news distribution, and government in the tumultuous decades that witnessed the 1848 revolutions, the wars of unification, and the establishment of the Kaiserreich in 1871. Following the telegraph lines themselves, it weaves together the changes which took place at a local, regional, national, and eventually global level, revisiting the technology's impact upon concepts of space and time, and highlighting the importance of this period in laying the foundations for Germany's experience of a profoundly ambiguous, networked modernity.