LEADER 03545nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910974591503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612255908 010 $a9781282255906 010 $a1282255908 010 $a9780299223533 010 $a0299223531 035 $a(CKB)1000000000723269 035 $a(EBL)3444827 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000118658 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11117130 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118658 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10052903 035 $a(PQKB)11051618 035 $a(OCoLC)318240553 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12297 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444827 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288085 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL225590 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444827 035 $a(Perlego)4437472 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000723269 100 $a20070323d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCataclysms $ea history of the twentieth century from Europe's edge /$fDan Diner ; translated by William Templer with Joel Golb 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 225 1 $aGeorge L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780299223502 311 08$a0299223507 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-301) and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Interpretations: Two Varieties of Universal Civil War""; ""2 Conversions: Nation and Revolution""; ""3 Regimes: Democracy and Dictatorship""; ""4 Cataclysms: Genocide and Memory""; ""5 Dualisms: Decolonization and the Cold War""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" 330 8 $aCataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on the legendary stairs of Odessa and watches as events between the Baltic and the Aegean pass in review, unfolding in space and time between 1917 and 1989, while evoking the nineteenth century as an interpretative backdrop. Influenced by continental historical, legal, and social thought, Dan Diner views the totality of world history evolving from an Eastern and Southeastern European angle. A work of great synthesis, Cataclysms chronicles twentieth century history as a "universal civil war" between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West. Diner's interpretation rotates around cataclysmic events in the transformation from multinational empires into nation states, accompanied by social revolution and "ethnic cleansing, " situating the Holocaust at the core of the century's predicament. Unlike other Eurocentric interpretations of the last century, Diner also highlights the emerging pivotal importance of the United States and the impact of decolonization on the process of European integration. 410 0$aGeorge L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history. 606 $aHistory, Modern$y20th century 615 0$aHistory, Modern 676 $a909.82 700 $aDiner$b Dan$f1946-$0164449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974591503321 996 $aCataclysms$94354582 997 $aUNINA