Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to Present A Narrative History with Documents
ISBN: 9780312406998 | 0312406991
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 2/13/2007
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Offering a twenty-first century perspective on twentieth-century Europe, pre-eminent scholar Bonnie Smith's engaging new synthesis is the first text to provide both a thorough integration of social and cultural material with political history and substantive treatment of Europe's broader global context. Each of the twelve chapters combines compelling narrative with a wonderfully rich set of primary texts and picture essays, reinforcing for students the importance of primary sources to the study of history. Neither overtly triumphalist nor dispa... MORE
Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
1. IMPERIAL EUROPE AT THE DAWN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Europe's Peoples and Nations in the Global Order
Prosperity for States and Society
Great Britain: Greatest of the European Powers
France: Britain's Rival and Germany's Enemy
Germany: Europe's Rising Star
... MORE
Introduction for Students
1. IMPERIAL EUROPE AT THE DAWN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Europe's Peoples and Nations in the Global Order
Prosperity for States and Society
Great Britain: Greatest of the European Powers
France: Britain's Rival and Germany's Enemy
Germany: Europe's Rising Star
... MORE
BONNIE G. SMITH is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie's History of Twentieth-Century France (1985); Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700 (1989); The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (1998); Imperialism (2000); and The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. She is the editor of Global Feminisms since 1945 (2000) and coeditor of Objects of Modernity: Selected Writings of Lucy Maynard Salmon, Gendering Disability (2004) and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Smith has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture since the seventeenth century.
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