The European Experience : : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000.

• Author: Hansen, Jan.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hung, Jochen.; Ira, Jaroslav.; Klement, Judit.; Lesage, Sylvain.; Luis Simal, Juan.; Tompkins, Andrew.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2023.; Ã2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (994 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Bibliography -- Unit 1 -- Identities -- Chapter 1.1 -- Ideas of Europe -- Introduction -- Europe as a Geographical, Social, Political and Economic Reality -- Europe as a Cognitive Order -- Europe in Image and Text -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Patterns of Power in Europe -- Europe as a Shared 'Civilisation' -- Europe as a Community of Nation-States -- Pacifist, Liberal, and Socialist Ideas of Europe -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- The First World War and the 1920s -- The 1930s and the Second World War -- Post-1945 -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 1.2 -- Borders -- Introduction -- Varieties of Geographical and Political Borders, and Types of Travel -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Geopolitical Transformation -- Cultural Transformation -- Mental Maps -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Border Shifts -- Changing Meanings of Borders -- Memory of Borders -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 1.3 -- Migration -- Introduction -- Religious Migration and Diasporas in Early Modern Europe -- The Iberian Peninsula: Crossroads of Religious Migrations and Expulsions -- Migration and War: Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire -- Coerced and Forced Migration: Europe's Global Footprint -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Political Exiles, Deportees and Refugees -- Internal European Mass Migration -- International and Global Migration -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Migration in the Age of Territoriality: The First World War and the Interwar Period -- Migration in the Age of Territoriality: The Second World War.

Migration in East and West during the Cold War -- (Post)Colonial Migration -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 1.4 -- Europe's Other(ed)s: The Americas, Africa, Asia, AND THE Middle East -- Introduction -- European Models of 'Otherness' -- Complexities and Ambivalences -- Power and 'Otherness' -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- The United States of America -- Asia -- The Middle East and Africa -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Africa -- The Middle East -- Asia -- United States of America -- Latin America -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Unit 2 -- Societies -- Chapter 2.1 -- Demographic Change -- Introduction -- Types of Sources and Methodological Problems -- Early Modern Demographic Regime: Was There a Malthusian Equilibrium in Europe? -- Fertility -- Mortality -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- New Sources -- Demographic Transition -- Decreasing Mortality and Fertility Rates -- Industrialisation and Demographic Change -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- First Break: The Impact of the First World War -- Second Break: The Second World War and the Post-war Baby Boom -- Third Break: 1970s, Start of the Second Demographic Transition -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 2.2 -- Interethnic Relations -- Introduction -- Ethnicity in Early Modern History -- The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as an Example of an Early Modern Multiethnic Polity -- Outsiders Within: Jews and Roma -- Europe's Indigenous Peoples -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction.

The Emergence of Modern Nation-states and the Changing Position of Ethnic Minorities in the Nation-state Paradigm -- Multi-ethnic Empires -- An Example of a Multi-ethnic Empire: Ethnic Relations in the Habsburg Monarchy -- Jews in Nation-states and Empires: Ethnicity or Denominational Minority? -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Ethnicity, Nationality, and Markers of Identity -- Ethnic Relations in Europe ca. 1918-1945 -- Mid-century Transformations -- Minority Issues and Policies During and After the Cold War -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 2.3 -- Household and Family -- Introduction -- Childbirth and Childhood -- The Adult World and the Household -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Changing Economic and Legal Frameworks -- Emotional, Cultural and Moral Dynamics -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Public versus Private -- Marriage and Family Law -- Sexuality in Europe in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 2.4 -- Inequalities -- Introduction -- Structural Inequalities in Early Modern Europe -- Gender Inequality and the Family -- Racial and Entangled Inequalities -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Class and Economic Forms of Inequality -- Gender and Sexuality -- Religion, 'Race', Ethnicity -- Inequalities of Disability and Health -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Income and Wealth Inequality -- Gender Inequalities -- Racial and Ableist Inequalities -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Unit 3 -- Power and Citizenship -- Chapter 3.1 -- State-building and Nationalism -- Introduction.

Institutions and the Law -- Finance and Personnel -- Representation and Citizenship -- Nations without Nationalism? -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- A New Model for Political Organisation in Europe: The Nation-state -- Institutions and Symbols -- The Nation in Everyday Life: National Identities and Indifference -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- The Nation-State, Minorities, Diaspora -- State-building in Europe during the Cold War -- Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 3.2 -- Empire and Colonialism -- Introduction -- Commonalities and Differences -- Emerging Empires -- Between Violence and Pragmatism -- Peoples-Peopling -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Violence, Profit, and Exploitation -- Ideas, Ideology, and Imagination -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Contiguous Empires in Eastern Europe -- Theories and Practices of Colonial Government -- Decolonisation of Western Empires -- Post-colonial Legacies -- Neo-colonialism and Remnants of the Empires -- European Third-Worldism -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 3.3 -- Revolutions and Civil Wars -- Introduction -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe -- 1776-1789: An "Atlantic Revolution"? -- The French Revolution -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Revolutionary Waves: 1800s-1840s -- The 1848 Revolutions -- Unification Wars as Revolutionary Movements and Civil Wars -- Social Revolution -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction: The Age of Revolutions as the Defining Moment -- Revolution, War and Civil War (1914-1948) -- Revolt, Terrorism and Democracy (1950-1989).

From Global Cold War to New Chaos (1989-2020) -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 3.4 -- Peace and Conflict -- Introduction -- The Iron Centuries -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- The Birth of Industrial Warfare -- Peace and Prosperity? -- Rage for Order in the Colonies -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- The Puzzle of Peace -- Civil Wars -- The Cold War -- Memories of Wars -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Chapter 3.5 -- Protest and Social Movements -- Introduction -- The Revolutionary Reformation -- Urban Citizens Rebel -- Rural Rebels: Goals and Chronology -- The French Revolution -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Voting Rights -- Women's Movements -- Abolitionist Movements: The Abolition of Serfdom -- The Abolition of Slavery -- Internationalism -- Violence -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Left- and Right-wing Movements in the Period up to 1939/1945 -- Protest Movements in Southern European (Authoritarian) Contexts after 1945 -- Protest Movements in Western and Northern Europe after 1945 -- Protest and Social Movements in East-Central Europe, 1945-1990 -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Unit 4 -- Knowledge -- Chapter 4.1 -- Science and Technological Change -- Introduction -- The Infrastructure of Knowledge -- Technological Change, Infrastructures, and Networking -- Migrating Craftsmen and the Diffusion of Innovations -- Industrialisation -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction -- Science and Medicine -- Technology and Politics -- Technology, Science, and Global Capitalism -- Conclusion -- Discussion questions -- Suggested reading -- Introduction.

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