Europe between democracy and dictatorship

Titel: Europe between democracy and dictatorship : 1900 - 1945 / Conan Fischer
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Veröffentlicht: Malden, Mass. ˜[u.a.]œ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
Umfang: XII, 395 S. : Ill., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Blackwell history of Europe
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ISBN: 0631215115 ; 9780631215110 ; 0631215123 ; 9780631215127
Lokale Klassifikation: 1 7 P ; 31 7 L ; 31 7 N ; 31 7 J
  • List of Maps
  • p. ix
  • List of Figures
  • p. x
  • Foreword
  • p. xi
  • 1
  • The European Paradox
  • p. 1
  • 2
  • The Coming of War
  • p. 7
  • 2.1
  • A Balkans War
  • p. 7
  • 2.2
  • Why the War Need Not Have Spread
  • p. 13
  • 2.3
  • Why the War Spread
  • p. 25
  • 3
  • Fighting the War
  • p. 40
  • 3.1
  • The Opening Gambits: 1914
  • p. 40
  • 3.2
  • The Elusive Victory: 1915
  • p. 47
  • 3.3
  • The High Noon of Attrition: 1916
  • p. 52
  • 3.4
  • The Tipping Point: 1917
  • p. 59
  • 3.5
  • Defeat and Victory: 1918
  • p. 66
  • 4
  • Ending the War: Revolutions and Peacemaking
  • p. 69
  • 4.1
  • The Home Front in Wartime
  • p. 69
  • 4.2
  • Revolution in Russia
  • p. 75
  • 4.3
  • Revolution in Germany
  • p. 90
  • 4.4
  • The Legacy of War and the Treaty of Versailles
  • p. 100
  • 4.5
  • Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean
  • p. 116
  • 4.6
  • Western Upheavals
  • p. 130
  • 4.7
  • The Fascist Revolution in Italy
  • p. 135
  • 5
  • Revision and Recovery, 1919-1929
  • p. 143
  • 5.1
  • From Versailles to the Dawes Plan
  • p. 143
  • 5.2
  • From Locarno to the Young Plan
  • p. 171
  • 5.3
  • Economy and Society: A Faltering Recovery
  • p. 180
  • 5.4
  • A Contested Modernity
  • p. 187
  • 6
  • The High Noon of the Dictators
  • p. 199
  • 6.1
  • Economic Armageddon: The Great Depression in Europe
  • p. 199
  • 6.2
  • The Rise of the Nazis, 1919-1933
  • p. 208
  • 6.3
  • Hitler in Power, 1933-1939
  • p. 221
  • 6.4
  • Dictatorship beyond Germany
  • p. 234
  • 6.4.1
  • Challenges in the surviving democracies
  • p. 235
  • 6.4.2
  • Nationalists, Fascists, and Bolsheviks
  • p. 248
  • 7
  • The Return to War
  • p. 271
  • 7.1
  • From Global Disarmament to War: 1932-1939
  • p. 271
  • 7.2
  • The Reasons for War
  • p. 278
  • 7.3
  • From Poland to the Fall of France: September 1939-June 1940
  • p. 286
  • 7.4
  • From Vichy to Pearl Harbor: June 1940-December 1941
  • p. 299
  • 8
  • Europe Eclipsed
  • p. 309
  • 8.1
  • Competing Caesuras: 1940-1 or 1945?
  • p. 309
  • 8.2
  • Hitler's War - from Triumph to Oblivion, 1941-1945
  • p. 311
  • 8.3
  • Holocaust
  • p. 322
  • 9
  • Europe: An Honorable Legacy?
  • p. 327
  • Notes
  • p. 331
  • Bibliography
  • p. 358
  • Index
  • p. 372