The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history--an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War, award-winning British historian Ian Kershaw combines his characteristic original scholarship and gripping prose as he profiles the key decision makers and the violent shocks of war as they affected the entire European continent and radically altered the course of European history. Kershaw identifies four major causes for this catastrophe: an explosion of ethnic-racist nationalism, bitter and irreconcilable demands for territorial revisionism, acute class conflict given concrete focus through the Bolshevik Revolution, and a protracted crisis of capitalism.
Sobre o autor(a)
Kershaw, Ian
IAN KERSHAW nasceu em 1943 em Oldham, Inglaterra. Foi professor de história contemporânea na Universidade de Sheffield, da qual se aposentou em 2008. Especialista na Alemanha nazista, escreveu importantes obras sobre o assunto. Dele, a Companhia das Letras publicou Dez decisões que mudaram o mundo (2008), Hitler (2010), O fim do Terceiro Reich (2015) e De volta ao inferno (2016). |
| ISBN | 9780143109921 |
| Autor(a) | Kershaw, Ian |
| Editora | Penguin Group USA |
| Idioma | Inglês Americano |
| Ano de edição | 2016 |
| Páginas | 640 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 22,00 X 14,00 |