This much-awaited epic history of postwar Europe, written by one of the most renowned historians and thinkers in the world, took over ten years to complete, making it a unique accomplishment. Using research in six languages, Postwar is the first modern history to encompass all of Europe, east and west, taking readers through thirty-four countries and sixty years of political and cultural upheaval in one cohesive, captivating account. Postwar is a rare pleasure that is both academically challenging and engrossing to read, exciting in its vastness and lovely in its minute details.
Selected as one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year; winner of the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations; finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Contents Table
The author's page on copyright
Dedication: Introduction and Acknowledgment
First Off
Section I: Post-War Period, 1945–1953
1. The effects of war; 2. Retaliation; 3. Europe's recovery
4. The unattainable agreement
5. The commencement of hostilities
6. Into the tornado
7. Wars of culture
CODA- The end of Europe's past
PART TWO: 1953–1971: Prosperity and its Discontents
8. The stability politics
9. Erroneous beliefs
10. The era of prosperity
AFTERWORDS: A Story of Two Economies
11. The time of social democracy
12. The revolutionary specter
13. The affair's termination
Section Three: Economic Downturn, 1971–1989
14. Reduced anticipations 15. Politics in a new crucial
16. A period of change 17. The return to reality
18. The helplessness of power
19. The collapse of the status quo
Section Four: Following the Axis: 1989–2005
20. A continent that is brittle 21. The reckoning
22. The new and the old Europe
23. Europe's diversity
24. Europe as an identity
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