Contemporary Europe : a history /
By: Wilkinson, James.
Contributor(s): Hughes, H[enry] Stuart.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2004Edition: 10th edition.Description: xx, 616 p. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0131841769; 9780131841765.Subject(s): Europe -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1914-1918 -- Europe | World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe | National socialism -- Europe | Communism -- Europe | Post-communism -- Europe | World politics -- 20th century | European federation | Europe -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 940Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 940 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0064723 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Europe in 1914 -- The First World War -- The Russian Revolution and its consequences -- The settlement of 1919-1923 -- Technology and society : bewteen old and new -- The years of stability : 1924-1919 -- The high culture of the 1920s -- The Great Depression : 1929-1935 -- The fascist regimes -- The Stalinist system -- European civilization in crisis -- The raod to catastrophe : 1935-1939 -- The Second World War -- Eastern Europe : the years of revolution, 1945-1949 -- Western Europe : the years of recovery, 1945-1949 -- Cultural reconstruction : 1945-1965 -- The Cold WAr : 1947-1953 -- The loss of colonial empire -- A new equilibrium : 1953-1960 -- Achieveing prosperity : 1960-1968 -- A decade of disillusionment : 1968-1979 -- The Cold War ends : 1980-1991 -- Toward a new Europe : 1991-[onward] -- Index.