Europe in the era of two World Wars
Subtitle: from militarism and genocide to civil society, 1900-1950
By: Volker R. Berghahn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J; Woodstock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780691141220
Subjects: Political violence; Totalitarianism; History
Work titles: Europa im Zeitalter der Weltkriege
Description: In this book, Volker Berghahn explains the rise and fall of the men of violence whose wars twice devastated large areas of the European continent and Russia- and why, after World War II, Europe adopted a liberal capitalist model of society. He explores the political terrain of Europe throughout the twentieth century and how the capitalist, industrial model came to be adopted throughout Europe.--[book cover]
Notes: Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Europe before World War I, 1895-1914. Industrial economy and civil society; title: The curse of Ethnonationalism and Colonialism; title: Premonitions of total war; title: Violence unleashed, 1914-1923. Mobilization, 1914; title: The totalization of warfare; title: The wars after the Great War; title: Recivilization and its failure, 1924-1935. The short dream of prosperity for all; title: Militarism; title: The Stalinist experiment in violence; title: Violence without bounds, 1935-1945. Total mobilization in peacetime; title: Terroristic warfare; title: Visions of a new European order.