A people's history of modern Europe
"From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget. Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London, England :
Pluto Press
2016
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428309606719 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. "The King's in His Castle ... All's Right with the World": The Collapse of the Middle Ages
- 2. "The Other Reformation": Martin Luther, Religious Dogma and the Common People
- 3. "The World Turned Upside Down": The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and the English Revolution, 1640-49
- 4. The Rise of the Third Estate: The French People Revolt
- 5. Becoming an Appendage to the Machine: The Revolution in Production
- 6. From the Revolutions of 1848-49 to the First People's Democracy: The Paris Commune
- 7. The Rise of the Working Classes: Trade Unions and Socialism
- 8. Protest and Mutiny Confront Mass Slaughter: Europeans in World War I
- 9. War Leads to Revolution: Russia (1917), Central Europe (1918-19)
- 10. Economic Collapse and the Rise of Fascism, 1920-33
- 11. Against Fascist Terror: War and Genocide, 1933-45
- 12. A New Europe? 1945-48
- 13. Europeans in the Cold War: Between Moscow and Washington
- 14. From the Berlin Wall to the Prague Spring: A New Generation of Europeans
- 15. Fighting for Peace in an Atomic Age, 1969-89
- 16. Europe Falls into the Twenty-First Century.
