The Struggle for Europe

Informationen zum Autor William I. Hitchcock was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1965, the son of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. He graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio and received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1994. A former professor and prize-winning teacher at Yale, he is currently Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Director of Academic Programs at the Miller Center. He is the author of France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 and The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . Klappentext From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe's peace settlement and the half century that followed, Hitchcock reveals how leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, and Margaret Thatcher balanced their nations' interests against the demands of the reigning superpowers, leading to great strides in economic and political unity. He re-creates Europeans' struggles with their troubling legacy of racial, ethnic, and national antagonism, and shows that while divisions persist, Europe stands on the threshold of changes that may profoundly shape the future of world affairs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Aftermath 1. German Midnight: The Division of Europe, 1945 2. Building Jerusalem: The Labour Government in Britain, 19451951 3. Democracy Embattled: France, Italy, and West Germany, 19441949 4. Behind the Iron Curtain: Communism in Power, 1945-1953 Part Two: Boom 5. The Miraculous Fifties 6. Winds of Change: The End of the European Empires 7. Hope Betrayed: The Khrushchev Years, 19531964 8. The Gaullist Temptation: Western Europe in the 1960s Part Three: Rebels 9. Europe and Its Discontents: 1968 and After 10. Southern Renaissance: The Transition to Democracy in Spain, Portugal, and Greece 11. Cracks in the Wall: Eastern Europe, 1968-1981 12. Rule, Britannia: The Thatcher Era Part Four: Unity? 13. The European Revolutions, 19891991 14. The Bones of Bosnia 15. Who Is European? Race, Immigration, and the Politics of Division 16. The Elusive European Union...

Autorentext
William I. Hitchcock was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1965, the son of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. He graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio and received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1994. A former professor and prize-winning teacher at Yale, he is currently Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Director of Academic Programs at the Miller Center. He is the author of France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 and The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 

Klappentext
From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe's peace settlement and the half century that followed, Hitchcock reveals how leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, and Margaret Thatcher balanced their nations' interests against the demands of the reigning superpowers, leading to great strides in economic and political unity. He re-creates Europeans' struggles with their troubling legacy of racial, ethnic, and national antagonism, and shows that while divisions persist, Europe stands on the threshold of changes that may profoundly shape the future of world affairs.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part One: Aftermath
1. German Midnight: The Division of Europe, 1945
2. Building Jerusalem: The Labour Government in Britain, 1945–1951
3. Democracy Embattled: France, Italy, and West Germany, 1944–1949
4. Behind the Iron Curtain: Communism in Power, 1945-1953

Part Two: Boom
5. The Miraculous Fifties
6. Winds of Change: The End of the European Empires
7. Hope Betrayed: The Khrushchev Years, 1953–1964
8. The Gaullist Temptation: Western Europe in the 1960s

Part Three: Rebels
9. Europe and Its Discontents: 1968 and After
10. Southern Renaissance: The Transition to Democracy in Spain, Portugal, and Greece
11. Cracks in the Wall: Eastern Europe, 1968-1981
12. Rule, Britannia: The Thatcher Era

Part Four: Unity?
13. The European Revolutions, 1989–1991
14. The Bones of Bosnia
15. Who Is European? Race, Immigration, and the Politics of Division
16. The Elusive European Union

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