This Fourth Edition presents a current look at the major issues, problems, and crises that have faced Europeans since 1914. EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY thoroughly addresses the central experiences of war, depression, revolution, and dictatorship, while examining Europe's social transformation and intellectual trends. This new edition is updated through the end of 2000, and includes coverage of the Balkans. It has been revised throughout to ensure readability and accuracy.

Europe in the Twentieth Century

History

Paxton, Robert O.

Europe

Wadsworth Publishing

EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY offers a comprehensive, yet streamlined narrative of twentieth-century Europe. The scholarship and currency is top-notch as is the book's excellent consideration of important socio-cultural issues in the twentieth century, including youth movements and feminism.

Europe in the twentieth century

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

World

Harcourt College Pub.

French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgères' Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939

Oxford University Press

French Peasant Fascism is the first account of the Greenshirts, a militant right-wing peasant movement in 1930s France that sought to transform the Republic into an authoritarian, agrarian state. Author Robert Paxton examines the Greenshirts in five case studies, throwing new light on French rural society and institutions during the Depression and on the emergence of a new rural leadership of authentic farmers. Paxton points out that fascism remained weak in the French countryside because the French state protected landowners more effectively than did those of Weimar Germany and Italy, and because French rural notables were so firmly embedded in social and economic power. Although the Greenshirts disappeared with the Third Republic, they left a double legacy: a tradition of peasant direct action, which is still exercised today; and the idea of France as a peasant nation, whose identity and virtues rest upon the persistence of a large peasant sector. That self-image continues to influence French policy choices today, long after the social structure on which it rested has disappeared.

Vichy France; old guard and new order, 1940-1944

Barrie Jenkins

A strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period, demonstrating how in the interests of stability, French national feeling favored collaboration with the German-controlled regime.

Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944

Columbia Univ. Pr.

A strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period, demonstrating how in the interests of stability, French national feeling favored collaboration with the German-controlled regime.

Columbia University Press

Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944

The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis’ greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards, ordinary Parisian Jews―mostly poor families and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe―were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings, but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews tells how this vast enterprise of plunder was implemented in the streets of Paris by analyzing images from an album of photographs found in the Federal Archives of Koblenz. Brought from Paris in 1945, the photographs were cataloged by the staff of the Munich Central Collecting Point. Beyond bearing witness to the petty acts of larceny, these images provide crucial information on how the Germans saw their work. They enable us to grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation between greed and mass destruction.

Arts & Photography

GENSBURGER, Sarah

Chapman, Herrick

Photography & Video

Indiana University Press

EUROPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY offers a comprehensive, yet streamlined narrative of twentieth-century Europe. The scholarship and currency is top-notch as is the book's excellent consideration of important socio-cultural issues in the twentieth century, including youth movements and feminism.

Hessler, Julie

Americas

Cengage Learning'

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