A Political History of Western Europe Since 1945

Description

Features

• The standard student introduction to the subject.
• Covers political consequences of the ending of the Cold War and European integration since Maastricht.
• Complex issues and terminology are explained clearly and accessibly.

Table of Contents

1. List of Maps
2.Preface and Acknowledgements
3. List of Abbreviations
4. Parameters and Perspectives
5.The Resistance in the Postwar World 
6.Problems of Reconstruction 
7. The Revival of Political Competition
8. Cold War and Atlantic Alliance
9. The Rebirth of Germany
10. Integration: the Postwar Beginning
11. Cold War to Thaw
12. Road to Rome
13. The Death of Colonialism
14. The Golden Economic Summer
15. Political Stability and Consensus
16. A Seesaw of Detente and Tension
17.What Kind of Europe?
18. Alienation and Protest
19. From Detente to New Cold War
20. Economic Dilemmas and Problems
21 The Extension of Democracy in Southern Europe
22. The Political Mosaic: a Politics of Uncertainty?
23. The Enlarged Community
24. The Improbable Decade 
25. Altered States
26. Requiescat in Pace: Cold War Western Europe
27. Bibliography
28. Maps
29. Index

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