ABSTRACT

Broad in geographical scope, this collection explores the most important transformations and upheavals of post-1945 Europe in the light of recent scholarship.

A wide array of authors from the UK, the USA and across Europe contribute twelve chapters consider key political, cultural and economic changes of an era that needs reevalutaion and reconsideration from a historical perspective.

Cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of issues – politics, economics, social and cultural aspects Themes in Modern European History since 1945 is structured around recent theoretical debates on the postwar, and will find a firm standing on the bookshelves of European history students.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

Divided Europe

chapter 2|14 pages

The collapse of world dominion

chapter 3|21 pages

The golden age of prosperity, 1953–73

chapter 6|19 pages

European mass culture in the media age

chapter 7|18 pages

The boundaries of the avant-garde

chapter 9|18 pages

The politics of European unification

chapter 10|22 pages

European economic integration