A History In Fragments

Europe in the Twentieth Century

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Richard Vinen

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The problem with the history of 20th-century Europe, asserts the author, is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism, female emancipation - seem self-evidently important. But behind the grand narratives, the politics and the ideologies, lies another history: the history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans. This is the thrust of Richard Vinen's survey of this uniquely destructive and creative century. It argues that there is no single history that encompasses the experience of all Europeans, but rather a multiplicity of different, partially interlocking, histories. Some of these histories are told here, in a book which seeks to root the generalizations of large-scale analysis in the concrete - and sometimes incongruous - details of individual lives, whilst aiming to be at once challenging, informing and revealing.

Author Biography:

Richard Vinen is a lecturer in history at King's College, London.

Release date NZ

March 7th, 2002

Author

Richard Vinen

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Integrated: 17, 17pp b/w int.

Pages

736

Dimensions

132x198x48

ISBN-13

9780349112695

Product ID

1696041

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