A people's history of modern Europe / / William A. Pelz.

• VerfasserIn: Pelz, William A.,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Pluto Press,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages)

From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom mainstream history tries to forget. Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great number...

Table of Contents

• 1. "The King's in His Castle ... All's Right with the World": The Collapse of the Middle Ages
• 2. "The Other Reformation": Martin Luther, Religious Dogma and the Common People
• 3. "The World Turned Upside Down": The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and the English Revolution, 1640-49
• 4. The Rise of the Third Estate: The French People Revolt
• 5. Becoming an Appendage to the Machine: The Revolution in Production
• 6. From the Revolutions of 1848-49 to the First People's Democracy: The Paris Commune
• 7. The Rise of the Working Classes: Trade Unions and Socialism
• 8. Protest and Mutiny Confront Mass Slaughter: Europeans in World War I
• 9. War Leads to Revolution: Russia (1917), Central Europe (1918-19)
• 10. Economic Collapse and the Rise of Fascism, 1920-33
• 11. Against Fascist Terror: War and Genocide, 1933-45
• 12. A New Europe? 1945-48
• 13. Europeans in the Cold War: Between Moscow and Washington
• 14. From the Berlin Wall to the Prague Spring: A New Generation of Europeans
• 15. Fighting for Peace in an Atomic Age, 1969-89
• 16. Europe Falls into the Twenty-First Century.