Companion to Europe, 1900 - 1945 (eBook)

Gordon Martel is Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. Among his other edited works are The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (1999) and The World War Two Reader (2004).

Notes on Contributors viii

Preface xiii

Maps xiv

Introduction: Europe in Agony, 1900-1945 xxi

Gordon Martel

Part I Continuity and Change; Forces and Movements 1

1 Urbanization, Poverty, and Crime 3

Paul Lawrence

2 The Revolution in Science 19

Cathryn Carson

3 Feminism: Women, Work, and Politics 35

June Hannam

4 Modernism 50

Robin Walz

5 The Cult of Youth 66

Elizabeth Harvey

6 Sexuality and the Psyche 82

Lesley A. Hall

7 The Economy 98

Peter Wardley

Part II Before the Deluge 117

8 Europe's World: Power, Empire, and Colonialism 119

Woodruff D. Smith

9 Social Reform or Social Revolution? 135

Gary P. Steenson

10 Modernity: Approaching the Twentieth Century 150

Angela K. Smith

11 Politics: The Past and the Future 165

Peter Waldron

12 The Coming of War, 1914 180

Annika Mombauer

Part III World War I 195

13 August 1914: Public Opinion and the Crisis 197

David Welch

14 The War in the Trenches 213

Tim Travers

15 The War from Above: Aims, Strategy, and Diplomacy 228

Matthew Stibbe

16 The War and Revolution 243

Mark Baker

Part IV The Aftermath of War 259

17 Peacemaking after World War I 261

Alan Sharp

18 Demobilization and Discontent 277

James M. Diehl

19 The Socialist Experiment 292

William J. Chase

20 The Fascist Challenge 309

Martin Blinkhorn

21 Revisionism 326

Carole Fink

Part V The New Age 341

22 The Jazz Age 343

Thomas J. Saunders

23 The Nazi New Society 359

Dick Geary

24 The Popular Front 375

Michael Richards

25 The Strategic Revolution 391

Tami Davis Biddle

26 Hitler and the Origins of World War II 407

Anita J. Prazmowska

Part VI World War II 423

27 Grand Strategy and Summit Diplomacy 425

Michael Jabara Carley

28 The Real War 441

David French

29 The Home Fronts: Europe at War, 1939-1945 456

Nicholas Atkin

30 The Holocaust 472

David Engel

31 Memories of World War II and the Holocaust in Europe
487

Harold Marcuse

Bibliography 505

Index 539