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Offering a twenty-first century perspective on twentieth-century Europe, pre-eminent scholar Bonnie Smith's engaging new synthesis is the first text to provide both a thorough integration of social and cultural material with political history and substantive treatment of Europe's broader global context. Each of the twelve chapters combines compelling narrative with a wonderfully rich set of primary texts and picture essays, reinforcing for students the importance of primary sources to the study of history. Neither overtly triumphalist nor disparaging, this even-handed and thoughtful account takes the full measure of Europe's negative and positive legacies at home and its impact on and interactions with the world at large.
- Sales Rank: #407051 in Books
- Published on: 2007-02-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.19" h x 1.09" w x 7.55" l, 2.70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 800 pages
About the Author
BONNIE G. SMITH is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Confessions of a Concierge: Madame Lucie's History of Twentieth-Century France (1985); Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700 (1989); The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (1998); Imperialism (2000); and The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. She is the editor of Global Feminisms since 1945 (2000) and coeditor of Objects of Modernity: Selected Writings of Lucy Maynard Salmon, Gendering Disability (2004) and the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Smith has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Currently she is studying the globalization of European culture since the seventeenth century.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Practical but not exhaustive
By Dekuji
I see two reviews here, and neither of them have anything to do with the book. It'd be nice if people didn't rate the product based on the shipping.
I've been using "Europe in the Contemporary World" for a history class all semester. As a student, I like to think I'm pretty well read when it comes to European history, especially the history of Eastern Europe. This book was an excellent guide throughout the class, offering insights to political and social climate. Due to necessity, however, it barely scratched the surface of many important events in European history in the last 100 years.
Pros:
The book is extremely well organized. You will have no problem following the evolution of events from the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the reunification of Germany. Timelines at the beginning of each chapter make it easy to get a birds eye view of each time period as it comes along. Documents and photo essays bring history to life with fascinating looks into the lives of real people from the times and places covered. Information on developments in Western nations is exhaustive. The influence of the United States is also well documented.
Cons:
Hardly exhaustive and very Western oriented. If you want to hear European history from a highly Western point of view, this is the book for you. If you've studied Eastern Europe and Russia *ever* this book will frustrate you, as references to both are filled with anti-slavic sentiment. Events and political and social climates in the east are mentioned rarely if at all. The focus here is definitely on the Western nations, and you will hear very little of what happened in Eastern Europe outside of Russia for the last 100 years. The book is often repetitive, going over the same concepts repeatedly from one chapter to the next or even within a single chapter. Anyone with previous experience in European history may be bored. Facts, dates and names are difficult to extract. You will definitely want a history reference as well, such as "Modern European History," if you are using this for a class.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
More than just Political and Military History
By J. Green
Summary: Since I’m fascinated with European History, I found this book to be worth five stars. This is a basic text book covering the 20th century including political, military, economic, and social history. At the end of each chapter is a short section on documents and pictures to highlight the important points of each chapter. The book also discusses other areas of the world, such as the U.S., as they impact Europe.
Best: I enjoyed the social and economic history of women. Why after World War II did France shave the heads of 19,600 women and only 400 men for Nazi collaboration (page 398)? Some of the women were paraded naked through the streets. Why were women singled out for public humiliation and not men? Also after the war, why did German stores close early, making it impossible for married working women to shop, while French stores stayed open until late evening (page 449)? Bonnie G. Smith answers these questions in her book.
Worst: The historical analysis was great from World War I to the Cold War, but weak since the Cold War. The last decade was reported, but not analyzed. Some of the documents put me to sleep. Other documents such as the Black African girl, who was born and raised in Berlin, was insightful (page 543). “How did you learn to speak German with a Berlin accent,” people would ask her? Military history was covered in the book, but not in detail. Maps were well done, but pictures were so-so.
Conclusion: Great book for anyone interested in 20th century Europe. I lived through the last few decades, but still found the last chapters interesting and informative. The 20th century in Europe was an era of war which didn’t end until 1990. Now balancing the welfare state, seeking unity through the European Union, and finding economic growth since the loss of foreign colonies is the goal of Europe. EUROPE (including Russia), America, and the “Asian Tigers”, remain the powers and drivers of the world.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
and she had great insight (to go along with the book) on what ...
By J. Coburn
One of the most well organized and precise books on 20th century European history I have ever read. I read this front to back for a "History of Modern Europe" course a few years ago. I was lucky enough to have a Russian teacher who came to America in the 90's to get away from the still mostly communist society in Russia, and she had great insight (to go along with the book) on what it was like to grow up in communist USSR. Contrary to another review on here, the "anti-slavic" sentiment of the book reads out more like "anti-communism," but what it does do is give you an honest insight to what a communist society looks, acts, and feels like. it's not a popular message that many "higher-learning" institutions want students to know about, but the book is brutally honest about both positive and negative facets of certain time periods in Europe. Both world wars, the rise of communism, totalitarianism, fascism, naziism, immediate post-war period, recovery, economic recessions, and economic recoveries are well laid out, documented, and easy to understand. The book is fair and balanced; I have read many history and social science books that lay the flattery thick on pro-progressive agendas and attempt to skewer capitalism. I am not making a point necessarily on which one is right, but it is refreshing to read truth and facts as opposed to agenda.
This book gives good and honest assessments of some of the most effective leaders of post-war Europe, including Thatcher, Kohl, and Kruschev, and provides excellent insight not just to the details of what happened, but to the atmosphere that pervaded certain countries at key points in history. Each chapter will divulge economic, historical, and social factors that created national sentiments and moods, which ultimately resulted in the rise of communism, the start of the 1st World War, and the Russian Revolution. All in all, a great asset to anyone's history collection. I kept this book (unlike most of my "garbage-in/garbage-out" textbooks) and still reference it when I need sources.
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