Out of Ashes
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-15279-0 (ISBN)
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A stunning achievement, Out of Ashes explores the paradox of the European encounter with modernity in the twentieth century, shedding new light on why it led to cataclysm, inhumanity, and self-destruction, but also social justice, democracy, and peace.
Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many books include Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton) and After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995. He lives in Chapel Hill.
Preface vii Introduction: The European Paradox 1 Part I: Promise of Progress, 1900-1929 1. Global Domination 19 2. Breakdown of Peace 46 3. Waging Total War 73 4. Bolshevik Revolution 102 5. Democratic Hopes 128 6. Fascist Alternative 155 7. Modernist Provocations 181 Part II: Turn to Self-Destruction, 1929-45 8. Devastating Depression 209 9. Stalinist Modernization 235 10. Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft 261 11. Unleashing World War II 287 12. Axis Conquest 314 13. Nazi Holocaust 341 14. Bitter Victory 369 Part III: Surprising Recovery, 1945-73 15. Democratic Renewal 399 16. Dictating Communism 426 17. Cold War Crises 452 18. Disappointing Decolonization 480 19. Economic Integration 506 20. Pop and Prosperity 533 21. Planning Social Reform 559 Part IV: Confronting Globalization, 1973-2000 22. Revolt against Modernity 587 23. Postindustrial Transition 613 24. Return to Detente 639 25. Peaceful Revolution 666 26. Transforming the East 694 27. Global Challenges 721 28. Prospects for the Twenty-first Century 747 Postscript: A Chastened Modernity 773 Acknowledgments 789 Notes 791 Index 851
Zusatzinfo | 12 Maps |
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Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 1361 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-15279-9 / 0691152799 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-15279-0 / 9780691152790 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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