Sources of European History: Since 1900 - Softcover

PERRY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 142406967X ISBN 13: 9781424069675

Publisher: Wadworth, 2010

Synopsis

This reader uses primary sources to illuminate the intellectual, political, and cultural history of Europe from 1900 to the present. Each part, chapter, and section contains an introduction that explains the historical setting and significance of the readings within.

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Review:

1: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY INHERITANCE. 2: WORLD WAR I. 3: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION . 4: AN ERA OF FASCISM. 5: WORLD WAR II. 6: WESTERN EUROPE: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA. 7: THE EASTERN BLOC, 1945-1981. 8: WESTERN EUROPE SINCE THE 1960s. 9: THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM. 10: EUROPE TODAY.

About the Author:

Marvin Perry, now retired, taught history at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published several successful Cengage Learning texts, including WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY (senior author and general editor); WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY; the leading Western Civilization reader, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION; AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE; SOURCES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1900 (senior editor); HUMANITIES IN THE WESTERN TRADITION (senior author and general editor); and WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: A CONCISE HISTORY. His scholarly work includes ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE WESTERN TRADITION (1996); ANTISEMITISM: MYTH AND HATE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (coauthor, 2002); ANTISEMITIC MYTHS: A HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008); and THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM: AN ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008). Dr. Perry's scholarly work focuses on the history of ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadworth
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 142406967X
• ISBN 13: 9781424069675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 528