Europe Since 1989: Transitions and Transformations - Hardcover

Outhwaite, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138847062 ISBN 13: 9781138847064

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Europe Since 1989 charts the development of Europe east and west since the 1989 revolutions. It analyses the emergent European society, the development of a European public sphere, and civil society. Most books on Europe are heavily biased to the West and Europe Since 1989 takes the opposite approach. It argues that the transformation of the postcommunist world has implications for the whole of Europe and explores the interplay between long-term fundamental tendencies and chance events and the possible futures which confront contemporary Europe. With close attention to political, economic and other social transformations, and an appendix which gives special attention to European macro regions (Nordic/Baltic Europe, Mediterranean Europe), it offers a sociology of Europe with a strong interdisciplinary emphasis.

About this title

About the Author:

William Outhwaite is Professor of Sociology (emeritus) at Newcastle University. His recent books in this area include European Society, Polity, 2008, Critical Theory and Contemporary Europe, Continuum, 2012 and (with Larry Ray) Social Theory and Postcommunism, Blackwell, 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138847062
• ISBN 13: 9781138847064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174