Europe's troubled peace [[electronic resource] ] : 1945 to the present / / Tom Buchanan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817953403321
• Autore: Buchanan Tom <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-42652-8; 9786613426529; 1-4443-5702-6; 1-4443-5701-8
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell History of Europe
• Disciplina: 940.55
• Soggetti: Europe History 1945-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Europe's troubles -- The war and its legacy -- Europe between the powers, 1945-1953 -- Restoration, reconstruction and revolution : Europe, 1945-1950 -- Consolidating Western Europe, 1950-1963 -- Western Europe in the 1960s -- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, from 1953 to the 1970s -- Western Europe in the 1970s : downturn and detente -- Western Europe in the 1980s : the era of Thatcher, Mitterrand and Kohl -- European integration : from Rome to Maastricht, 1957-1992 -- The fall of the communist regimes : the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1980-1991 -- Europe after the Cold War -- Europe in the new millennium -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the "War on Terror" on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this integrated history of Europe now covers the end of the Second World War up to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century Includes new sections on immigration and ethnicity in Europe after the Cold War, and the role of historical mem