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So, About Modern Europe...: A Conversational History from the Enlightenment to the Present Day [Kietas viršelis]

4.33/5 (21 ratings by Goodreads)
(Susquehanna University, USA)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 617 g, 21 bw illus
  • Išleidimo metai: 14-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350148695
  • ISBN-13: 9781350148697
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 617 g, 21 bw illus
  • Išleidimo metai: 14-Jan-2021
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1350148695
  • ISBN-13: 9781350148697
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
"Starting with the Enlightenment, Europeans developed big ideas that have increased opportunities for people around the world and raised standards of living. But those same ideas have also produced wars, genocide, colonialism, and the potential for global environmental disaster. In a natural, funny and engaging style, Imhoof guides us through the good, the bad and the indifferent of modern European history"--

The West – Europe and the USA – has kind of had its way with the world for a few centuries. Why else does everyone speak English, listen to hip-hop, and want to buy Mercedes?

Starting with the Enlightenment, Europeans developed big ideas that have increased opportunities for people around the world and raised standards of living. But those same ideas have also produced wars, genocide, colonialism, and the potential for global environmental disaster. This book describes the origins and legacy of this mixed bag of ideas which includes everything from democracy and feminism to those old foes, communism and capitalism. After all, it's a bag which still shapes how most people on the planet look at things today.

In a natural, funny and engaging style, So, About Modern Europe... expertly guides readers through the good, the bad and the indifferent of modern European history, convincingly arguing the need to 'tip the cap' to the Enlightenment and its influence along the way.

Recenzijos

David Imhoof has written a refreshing and carefully conceived conversational history of modern Europe. His engaging and humorous style will certainly appeal to students looking for an accessible introduction to this subject. * Lisa Pine, Associate Professor of History, London South Bank University, UK * Told with great panache and a wicked sense of humor, So, About Modern Europe offers a fresh consideration of a complex subject that neither panders to its audience nor blunts the sharp and dangerous edges of the Enlightenment and its legacies. * Margaret Menninger, Professor of History, Texas State University, USA * David Imhoof's conversational history of modern Europe is disarmingly lively as it casts off the conventional solemnity found in most academic books. But dont be fooled: it remains ambitious in scope and firmly anchored in historical scholarship * Greg Eghigian, Professor of History, Penn State University, USA *

Daugiau informacijos

A uniquely conversational history of modern Europe since the Renaissance that enables you to connect the past and present, with some humor thrown in along the way.
List of Figures and Maps
vi
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction (I know you skip introductions, but here's why you should read this) 1(4)
1 (Re)birthing New Ideas in the Renaissance
5(18)
2 Science is a Human Invention
23(18)
3 The Enlightenment Will Free You and Mess You Up
41(16)
4 Now, That's a Revolution! (France, 1789)
57(18)
5 I've Got a Fever, and the Only Prescription is More Nationalism!
75(18)
6 Industrialization, or: Welcome to the Machine
93(18)
7 On the Road Again: The Ideas and Violence of Western Imperialism
111(18)
8 Look, We've Got to Talk About the Enlightenment
129(18)
9 World War I: The War That Did Nothing but Changed Everything
147(18)
10 Between the Wars Without a Center, or: Up the Creek Without a Paddle
165(18)
11 Downhill All the Way: World War II and the Holocaust
183(18)
12 The Cold War as a Line in the Sand
201(18)
13 The Long, Strange, and Not-So-Complete Death of Colonialism
219(18)
14 The End of History, or Something Like That
237(18)
15 You Do You: Identity Politics
255(16)
Epilogue: Now What? 271(4)
Further Reading 275(6)
Index 281
David Imhoof is Professor of History at Susquehanna University, USA. He is the author of Becoming a Nazi Town: Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars (2013) and co-editor of The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations (2016).