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Overview
This reader uses primary sources to illuminate the intellectual, political, and cultural history of Europe from 1900 to the present. Each part, chapter, and section contains an introduction that explains the historical setting and significance of the readings within.
- A new section in Chapter 2 covers 'The Turkish Assault on Armenians' during World War I.
- A new section in Chapter 3 includes new readings on The Russian Civil War.
- Chapter 5 includes many new readings on D-Day and 'The End of the Third Reich,' including "The Morale of the German People, Both at Home and at the Front, Is Sinking Ever Lower" by Joseph Goebbels.
- A new section in Chapter 9 covers 'The Trauma of Transition from Communism' and includes readings such as "Chechnya: A Dirty War" by Anna Politkovskaya and "Accounts of Omarska Concentration Camp."
- An entirely new Chapter 10 titled Europe Today covers topics such as 'Anti-Americanism in Contemporary Europe,' 'Islam in Europe,' and 'The New Antisemitism: Old Hatreds Revived.'
- This text includes the most relevant and up-to-date sources to fully illustrate the intellectual, political, and cultural history of the period. Brief introductions to each chapter topic, introductory headnotes before each section, and short author bios before each reading all provide students with a complete picture of the era and the context in which to evaluate each source.
1: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY INHERITANCE.
2: WORLD WAR I.
3: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION .
4: AN ERA OF FASCISM.
5: WORLD WAR II.
6: WESTERN EUROPE: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
7: THE EASTERN BLOC, 1945-1981.
8: WESTERN EUROPE SINCE THE 1960s.
9: THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM.
10: EUROPE TODAY.
2: WORLD WAR I.
3: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION .
4: AN ERA OF FASCISM.
5: WORLD WAR II.
6: WESTERN EUROPE: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
7: THE EASTERN BLOC, 1945-1981.
8: WESTERN EUROPE SINCE THE 1960s.
9: THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM.
10: EUROPE TODAY.