Synopses & Reviews
Its coverage of southern and eastern Europe is expanded, as is its coverage of social history--especially women's history. It charts the theme of globalization starting with the 1890s and moving through to post-9/11. This new edition also examines how twenty-first-century Europe has addressed issues such as immigration and migration, economic globalization, environmental degradation, and terrorism.
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The Fifth Edition retains these strengths while embracing recent developments and current research. The text covers a century of rapid and tumultuous change, from increased population and migration in the early 1900s through the ongoing unrest in the Balkans.
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Since its first publication over thirty years ago, The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Presenthas offered students a concise and authoritative historical narrative of the events that shaped twentieth-century Europe.
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The new sixth edition of the leading text in contemporary European history is now thoroughly revised with up-to-date scholarship.
About the Author
Felix Gilbert, late of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was the first recipient of the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 1985.David Clay Large is professor of history at Montana State University and the author of Berlin (2000) and Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich (1997).