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by Peter H. Wilson (Editor)
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.
* Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe
* Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context
* Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe
Vedi indiceContents.
List of Maps.
List of Illustrations.
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
Maps.
PART 1 PEOPLE, PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION.
1 Eighteenth-Century History and the European Environment.
Dennis Wheeler.
2 Gender.
Deborah Simonton.
3 Rural Economy and Society.
Markus Cerman.
4 Manufacturing, Markets and Consumption.
Beverly Lemuire.
5 Towns and their Inhabitants.
Marc Schalenberg.
6 Eighteenth-Century Nobility: Challenge and Renewal.
Hamish Scott.
7 Poverty.
Peter H. Wilson.
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PART 2 CULTURES.
8 Public and Private.
Michael Schaich.
9 Enlightened Thought, its Critics and Competitors.
Thomas Munck.
10 Medicine, Medical Practice and Public Health.
Mary Lindemann.
11 Religion and Toleration.
Joachim Whaley.
12 Popular Culture and Sociability.
Beat Kumin.
13 The Arts.
Mark Berry.
PART 3 STATE AND SOCIETY.
14 Russia.
Lindsey Hughes.
15 Poland-Lithuania.
Jerzy Lukowski.
16 The Empire, Austria and Prussia.
Peter H. Wilson.
17 The Scandinavian Kingdoms.
Michael Bregnsbo.
18 The Dutch Republic.
J.L. Price.
19 The Italian States.
Gregory Hanlon.
20 Iberia: Spain and Portugal in the Eighteenth Century.
Chris Storrs.
21 France.
Mike Rapport.
22 Britain and Hanover.
Torsten Riotte.
PART 4 INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS.
23 Diplomacy and the Great Powers.
Andrew Thompson.
24 Islam and Europe.
Molly Greene.
25 Europe and the World.
Philippe Girard.
26 Europe and the Sea.
Jan Glete.
PART 5 POLITICS AND THE STATE.
27 Dynasticism and the World of the Court.
Clarissa Campbell Orr.
28 Absolutism and Royal Government.
Ronald G. Asch.
29 War 1688-1812.
Ciro Paoletti.
30 Participatory Politics.
David M. Luebke.
31 The French and European Revolutions.
Alan Forrest.
Bibliography.
Index.
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by Abbott Gleason (Editor)
A Companion to Russian History
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day.
* Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada
* Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia
* Offers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary people
* Offers a balanced review of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, demonstrating the range and dynamism of the field
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors.
1 Russian Historiography after the Fall (Abbott Gleason).
PART I RUS′: THE EARLY EAST SLAVIC WORLD.
2 From Proto-Slavs to Proto-State (P. M. Barford).
3 The First East Slavic State (Janet Martin).
4 Rus′ and the Byzantine Empire (George Majeska).
5 The Mongols and Rus′: Eight Paradigms (Donald Ostrowski).
PART II TO MUSCOVY AND BEYOND.
6 Muscovite Political Culture (Nancy Shields Kollmann).
7 Slavery and Serfdom in Russia (Richard Hellie).
8 Russian Art from the Middle Ages to Modernism (Ilia A. Dorontchenkov (translated by Abbott Gleason)).
9 The Church Schism and Old Belief (Nadieszda Kizenko).
PART III THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
10 Petrine Russia (Lindsey Hughes).
11 The Westernization of the Elite, 1725–1800 (Gary Marker).
12 The Great Reforms of the 1860s (Daniel Field).
13 Industrialization and Capitalism (Thomas C. Owen).
14 The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia (Christopher Ely).
15 Russia: Minorities and Empire (Robert Geraci).
16 The Intelligentsia and its Critics (Gary Saul Morson).
17 Russian Modernism (Andrew Wachtel).
18 Russia’s Popular Culture in History and Theory (Louise McReynolds).
19 The Russian Experience of the First World War (Melissa Stockdale).
PART IV THE SOVIET UNION.
20 From the First World War to Civil War, 1914–1923 (Mark von Hagen).
21 The Woman Question in Russia: Contradictions and Ambivalence (Elizabeth A. Wood).
22 Stalinism and the 1930s (Lynne Viola).
23 The Soviet Union in the Second World War (Nikita Lomagin (translated by Melissa Stockdale and Abbott Gleason)).
24 The Cold War (David C. Engerman).
25 Old Thinking and New: Khrushchev and Gorbachev (Robert English).
26 The End of the Soviet Union (Robert V. Daniels).
PART V WHITHER RUSSIA?
27 Russia's Post-Soviet Upheaval (Bruce Parrott).
28 Russian History and the Future of Russia (William E. Odom).
Index.
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by R. Po-chia Hsia (Editor)
A Companion to the Reformation World
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history.
* Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation.
* Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas.
* Takes a broad, inclusive approach – covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate
Vedi indiceList of Contributors.
Introduction: The Reformation and its Worlds: R. Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University).
Part I: On the Eve of the Reformation:.
1. Dissent and Heresy: Euan Cameron (Union Theological Seminary in New York City).
2. Society and Piety: Larissa Taylor (Colby College).
Part II: The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire:.
3. Martin Luther and the German Nation: Robert Kolb (Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis).
4. The Peasants’ War: Tom Scott (University of Liverpool).
5. Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation: Hans-Jürgen Goertz (University of Hamburg, Germany).
6. The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland: Kaspar von Greyerz (University of Basel).
Part III: The European Reformation:.
7. Calvin and Geneva: Robert M. Kingdon (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
8. Reform in the Low Countries: Joke Spaans (University of Amsterdam).
9. The Reformation in England to 1603: Christopher Haigh (University of Oxford).
10. The Religious Wars in France: Barbara B. Diefendorf (Boston University).
11. The Italian Reformation: Massimo Firpo (University of Turin).
12. The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland: James R. Palmitessa (Western Michigan State University).
13. Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania: István György Tóth (Central European University, Budapest).
Part IV: Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles:.
14. The Society of Jesus: John O’Malley (Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA).
15. Female Religious Orders: Amy E. Leonard (Georgetown University, Washington, DC).
16. The Inquisition: William Monter (Northwestern).
17. The Thirty Years’ War: Johannes Burkhardt (University of Augsburg, Germany).
18. Spain and Portugal: José Pedro Paiva (University of Coimbra).
19. Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religious Conflict in England: Dan Beaver (Pennsylvania State University).
Part V: Christian Europe and the World:.
20. Religion and Church in Early Latin America: Kevin Terraciano (University of California, Los Angeles).
21. Compromise: India: Ines G. Županov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris).
22. Promise: China: R. Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University).
23. A Mission Interrupted: Japan: Michael Cooper (retired, formerly of Sophia University, Tokyo).
Part VI: Structures of the Reformation World:.
24. The New Parish: Bruce Gordon (University of St Andrews).
25. Making Peace: Olivier Christin (University of Lyon-2).
26. Magic and Witchcraft: James A. Sharpe (University of York).
27. Martyrs and Saints: Brad S. Gregory (Stanford University).
28. Jews in a Divided Christendom: Miriam Bodiam (Pennsylvania State University).
29. Co-existence, Conflict, and the Practice of Toleration: Benjamin J. Kaplan (University College London).
Bibliography.
Index
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R.J.B. Bosworth
The Oxford Handbook of Fascism
Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2009
The essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of distinguished scholars, combine to explore the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion.
From a focus on Italy as, chronologically at least, the 'first Fascist nation', the contributors cover a wide range of countries, from Nazi Germany and the comparison with Soviet Communism to fascism in Yugoslavia and its successor states. The book also examines the roots of fascism before 1914 and its survival, whether in practice or in memory, after 1945. The analysis looks at both fascist ideas and practice, and at the often uneasy relationship between the two.
The book is not designed to provide any final answers to the fascist problem and no quick definition emerges from its pages. Readers will rather find there historical debate. On appropriate occasions, the authors disagree with each other and have not been forced into any artificial 'consensus', offering readers the chance to engage with the debates over a phenomenon that, more than any other single factor, led humankind into the catastrophe of the Second World War.
Vedi indiceIntroduction
Ideas and Formative Experience
1: Kevin Passmore: The ideological origins of Fascism before 1914
2: Alan Kramer: The First World War as Cultural Trauma
3: Richard Bessel: World War One as Totality
4: Glenda Sluga: The Aftermath of War
The First Fascist Nation
5: Mimmo Franzinelli: Squadrism
6: Guido Bonsaver: Culture and Intellectuals
7: Roger Absalom: The Peasant Experience Under Italian Fascism
8: Philip Morgan: Corporatism and the Economic Order
9: John Pollard: Fascism and Catholicism
10: Patrizia Dogliani: Propaganda and Youth
11: Perry Willson: Women in Mussolini's Italy 1922-45
12: Mauro Canali: Crime and Repression
13: Davide Rodogno: Fascism and War
14: Richard Bosworth: Dictators, Strong or Weak? The Model of Benito Mussolini
The Nazi Comparison
15: Gustavo Corni: State and Society: Italy and Germany Compared
16: Robert Gordon: Race
17: Jim Burgwyn: Diplomacy and World War: the (first) Axis of Evil
Others
18: Roger Markwick: Communism: Fascism's 'other'?
19: Mary Vincent: Spain
20: Mark Pittaway: Hungary
21: Radu Ioanid: Romania
22: Marko Attila Hoare: Yugoslavia and its successor states
23: Corinna Peniston-Bird: Austria
24: Bob Moore: The Netherlands
25: Bruno de Wever: Belgium
26: Martin Pugh: Britain and its Empire
27: Joan Tumblety: France
28: Rikki Kersten: Japan
Reflection and Legacies
29: Robert Paxton: Comparisons and Definitions
30: Nathan Stoltzfus and Richard Bosworth: Memory and Representations of Fascism in Germany and Italy
31: Anna Cento Bull: Neofascism
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Helmut Walser Smith
The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History
Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2011
This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany.'
Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in modern Germany.
Vedi indice1: Helmut Walser Smith: Introduction
Part I: History
2: Robert von Friedeburg: The Origins of Modern Germany
3: Celia Applegate: Senses of Place
4: Ann Goldberg: Women and Men: 1760-1960
Part II: States, People and Nation, 1760-1860
5: Ute Planert: International Conflict, War, and the Making of Modern Germany, 1740-1815
6: 1. Jürgen Osterhammel and Franz Leander Fillafer: Cosmopolitanism and the German Enlightenment
7: Jonathan Sperber: The Atlantic Revolutions in the German Lands, 1776-1849
8: James M. Brophy: The End of the Economic Old Order: The Great Transition, 1750-1860
9: Ernest Benz: Escaping Malthus: Population Explosion and Human Movement, 1760-1884
10: George S. Williamson: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews: Enlightenment, Emancipation, New Forms of Piety
11: Christian Jansen: The Formation of German Nationalism, 1740-1850
12: Ritchie Robertson: German Literature and Thought from 1810 to1890
Part III: Germany: The Nation State
13: Siegfried Weichlein: Nation State, Conflict Resolution, and Culture War, 1850-1878
14: Helmut Walser Smith: Authoritarian State, Dynamic Society, Failed Imperialist Power, 1878-1914
15: Cornelius Torp: The Great Transformation: German Economy and Society, 1850-1914
16: Andrew Zimmerman: Race and World Politics: Germany in the Age of Imperialism, 1878-1914
17: Benjamin Ziemann: Germany 1914-1918. Total War as a Catalyst of Change
18: J. Adam Tooze: The German National Economy in an Era of Crisis and War, 1917-1945
19: Thomas Mergel: Democracy and Dictatorship
20: Rebekka Habermas: Piety, Power and Powerlessness: Religion and Religious Groups in Germany, 1870-1945
21: 1. Steve Dowden and Meike G. Werner: The Place of German Modernism
22: Pieter M. Judson: Nationalism in the Era of the Nation State, 1870-1945
23: Thomas Kuhne: Todesraum: War, Peace, and the Experience of Mass Death, 1914-1945
24: William H. Hagen: The Three Horsemen of the Holocaust: Antisemitism, East European Empire, Aryan Folk Community
25: 1. Sebastian Conrad and Philipp Ther: The Uprooted: Expulsion, Exile, Flight, Forced Labor, Expulsion, 1880-1948
Part IV: Germany 1945-1989
26: Stefan Ludwig Hoffman: The Occupation of Germany, a Rubble Society
27: Andrew I. Port: Democracy and Dictatorship in the Cold War: the Two Germanies, 1949-1961
28: Uta Poiger: Generations: The Revolution of the 1960s
29: Donna Harsch: Industrialization, Mass Consumption, Postindustrial Society
30: Benjamin Ziemann: Religion and the Search for Meaning, 1945-1990
31: Lutz Koepnik: Culture in the Shadow of Trauma?
32: Andreas Daum: The Two German States in the International World
Part V: Contemporary Germany
33: David F. Patton: Annus Mirabilis: 1989 and German Unification
34: Kiran Patel: Germany and European Integrations since 1945
35: William A. Barbieri, Jr.: Toward a Multicultural Society?
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T. M. Devine, Jenny Wormald
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Such major themes as the Reformation, the Union of 1707, the Scottish Enlightenment, Clearances, Industrialisation, Empire, Emigration, and the Great War are approached from novel and fascinating perspectives, but so too are such issues as the Scottish environment, myth, family, criminality, the literary tradition, and Scotland's contemporary history. All chapters contain expert syntheses of current knowledge, but their authors also stand back and reflect critically on the questions which still remain unanswered, the issues which generate dispute and controversy, and sketch out where appropriate the agenda for future research.
The Handbook also places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience with a considerable focus on the age-old emigration of the Scottish people, the impact of successive waves of immigrants to Scotland, and the nation's key role within the British Empire. The overall result is a vibrant and stimulating review of modern Scottish history - essential reading for students and scholars alike. (Da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indiceT.M. Devine and Jenny Wormald: Introduction: The Study of Modern Scottish History
Part One: Some Fundamentals of Modern Scottish History
1: T.C. Smout: Land and Sea: The Environment
2: Michael Anderson: The Demographic Factor
3: Colin Kidd and James Coleman: Mythical Scotland
4: Stewart J. Brown: Religion and Society
5: Cairns Craig: The Literary Tradition
6: Robert Dodgshon: Clearances and the Transformation of the Scottish Countryside
7: T.M. Devine: A Global Diaspora
Part Two: Reformation, Regal Union and Civil Wars 1500 - c.1680
8: Andrea Thomas: The Renaissance
9: Jenny Wormald: Reformed and Godly Scotland?
10: Laura Stewart: The 'Rise' of the State?
11: T.M. Devine: Reappraising the Early Modern Economy 1500 - 1660
12: Alasdair Raffe: Scotland Restored and Reshaped: Politics and Religion
13: Elizabeth Ewan: The Early Modern Family
14: Patrick Fitzgerald: The Seventeenth Century Irish Connection
Part Three: Union and Enlightenment c.1680 - 1760
15: Karin Bowie: New Perspectives on Pre-Union Scotland
16: Steve Murdoch and Esther Mijers: Migrant Destinations
17: Clare Jackson: Union Historiographies
18: Daniel Szechi: Scottish Jacobitism in its International Context
19: Alexander Broadie: The rise (and fall?) of the Scottish Enlightenment
20: Anne-Marie Kilday: The Barbarous North? Criminality in Early Modern Scotland
Part Four: The Nation Transformed 1760 - 1914
21: Stana Nenadic: Industrialisation and the Scottish People
22: Douglas Hamilton: Scotland and the eighteenth-century Empire
23: Gordon Pentland: The Challenge of Radicalism
24: Richard Rodger: The Scottish Cities
25: Graeme Morton: Identity within the Union State
26: Ben Braber: Immigrants
27: Angela McCarthy: The Scottish Diaspora since 1815
28: Esther Breitenbach: Impact of the Victorian Empire
Part Five: The Great War to the New Millennium 1914 - 2010
29: E.W. McFarland: The Great War
30: Richard J. Finlay: The Inter-War Crisis: The Failure of Extremism
31: Graham Walker: The Religious Factor
32: Catriona M. M. Macdonald: Gender and Nationhood in Modern Scottish Historiography
33: Ewen Cameron: The Stateless Nation and the British State since 1918
34: Iain McLean: Challenging the Union
35: George Peden: A New Scotland?: The Economy
36: David McCrone: A New Scotland?: Society and Culture
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Dan Stone
The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History
Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2012
The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the 35 chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, the The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy.
The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the thirty five essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by acknowledged experts, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.
Vedi indiceList of Contributors
Dan Stone: Editor's Introduction: Postwar Europe as History
PART I: WHAT IS POSTWAR EUROPE?
1: Geoff Eley: Corporatism and the Social Democratic Moment: The Postwar Settlement, 1945-1973
2: Richard Overy: Interwar, War, Postwar: Was There a Zero Hour in 1945?
3: Catherine Lee and Robert Bideleux: East, West, and the Return of 'Central': Borders Drawn and Redrawn
4: Luiza Bialasiewicz: Spectres of Europe: Europes Past, Present and Future
5: Luisa Passerini: Europe and Its Others. Is There a European Identity?
PART II: PEOPLE
6: Philipp Ther: Ethnic Cleansing
7: Dan Stone: Responding to 'Order Without Life'? Living under Communism
8: Philipp Gassert: The Spectre of Americanization: Western Europe in the American Century
9: Stephen Castles: Immigration and Asylum: Challenges to European Identities and Citizenship
10: Uli Linke: Gendering Europe, Europeanizing Gender: The Politics of Difference in a Global Era
11: Martn Klimke: 1968: Europe in Technicolour
PART III: BLOCS, PARTIES, POLITICAL POWER12: Mark Pittaway: Making Postwar Communism
13: Jussi M. Hanhimäki: Europe's Cold War
14: Ido De Haan: The Western European Welfare State beyond Christian and Social Democratic Ideology
15: Douglas Selvedge: The Truth about Friendship Treaties: Behind the Iron Curtain
PART IV: RE-CONSTRUCTION: STARTING AFRESH OR REBUILDING THE OLD?
16: Leopoldo Nuti: A Continent Bristling with Arms: Continuity and Change in Western European Security Policies after the Second World War
17: Gianni Toniolo and Nick Crafts: 'Les trente glorieuses': From the Marshall Plan to the Oil Crises
18: Robert Bideleux: European Integration: The Rescue of the Nation State?
19: Ivan T. Berend: A Restructured Economy: From the Oil Crisis to the Financial Crisis, 1973-2009
20: Rosemary Wakeman: Veblen Redivivus: Leisure and Excess in Europe
PART V: FEAR
21: P. D. Smith: 'Gentlemen, You are Mad!' Mutual Assured Destruction and Cold War Culture
22: Vladimir Tismaneanu: What Was National Stalinism?
23: Martin Evans: Colonial Fantasies Shattered
24: Helen Graham and Alejandro Quiroga: After the Fear Was Over? What Came after Dictatorships in Spain, Greece, and Portugal
25: Michael Shafir: What Comes after Communism?
26: Cathie Carmichael: Brothers, Strangers and Enemies: Ethno-nationalism and the Demise of Communist Yugoslavia
PART VI: CULTURE AND HISTORY
27: Hugh D. Clout: The Countryside: Toward a Theme Park?
28: Brian Graham and G. J. Ashworth: Heritage and the Reconceptualization of the Postwar European City
29: Robert J. C. Young: The Postcolonial Condition
30: Stefan Muthesius: Postwar Art, Architecture, and Design
31: Andrew Jamison: Science and Technology in Postwar Europe
32: Ib Bondebjerg: Images of Europe - European Images: Postwar European Cinema and Television Culture
PART VII: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE WAR
33: Samuel Moyn: Intellectuals and Nazism
34: Roger Markwick: The Great Patriotic War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Collective Memory
35: Dan Stone: Memory Wars in the 'New Europe'
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William Doyle
The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime
Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2011
In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, an international team of 30 contributors surveys and presents current thinking about the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe.
The idea of the Ancien Régime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and replace. But it was not a precise definition, and although historians have found it conceptually useful, there is wide disagreement about what the Ancien Régime's main features were, how they worked, how old they were, how far they stretched, how dynamic or inert they were, and how far the revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions to eradicate them.
In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas of research into the Ancien Régime are presented and assessed, and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien Régime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of historical problems which it continues to pose.
Vedi indice1: William Doyle: Introduction
Section I: Government
2: Peter R. Campbell: Absolute Monarchy
3: Hamish Scott: Diplomacy
4: David Parrott: Armed Forces
5: Joël Félix: Finance
6: Julian Swann: Parlements and Provincial Estates
Section II: Society
7: John Shovlin: Nobility
8: Sarah Maza: Bourgeoisie
9: Gail Bossenga: Estates, Orders, and Corps
10: Alan Forrest: Poverty
11: Julia Hardwick: Gender
Section III: Economy
12: Jack A. Goldstone: Demography
13: Anthony Crubaugh: Feudalism
14: Peter M. Jones: Agriculture
15: Silvia Marzagalli: Commerce
16: William Doyle: Slavery and Serfdom
Section IV: Religion
17: Nigel Aston: The Established Church
18: Robin Briggs: Popular Religion
19: Thomas O'Connor: Jansenism
20: Marisa Linton: Dissent and Toleration
Section V: Culture
21: Dorinda Outram: Education
22: Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire: Sociability
23: Mark Ledbury: Patronage
24: Thomas E. Kaiser: The Public Sphere
Section VI: Solvents?
25: Thomas Munck: Enlightenment
26: Christine MacLeod and Alessandro Nuvolari: Technological Change
27: Michael Rapport: Revolution
Section VII: Test Cases
28: Michael Broers: The Napoleonic Regimes
29: Julian Hoppit: Reformed and Unreformed Britain, 1689-1801
30: Christopher Clark: Colonial America
31: Peter H. Wilson: The Old Reich
32: William Doyle: Conclusion
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Viola Paolo
L'Europa moderna: storia di un'identità
Torino: Einaudi, 2004.
In età moderna gli europei conquistarono, e persero poi, l'intero pianeta, non prima di averlo trasformato irreversibilmente, e avergli trasmesso alcuni dei loro valori fondamentali, che furono anche le armi di quella conquista, e cioè il capitalismo, lo Stato complesso e il pluralismo.Armi e caratteri che definiscono le società europee come generalmente più flessibili di altre. Partendo da questa constatazione Paolo Viola sviluppa alcune considerazioni. La prima è che per intraprendere quella conquista gli europei disponevano di alcuni elementi che, apparentemente deboli, si sarebbero rivelati punti di forza: una Chiesa rivale della politica, in continua competizione per il potere; un ceto dirigente militare fondato sulla nascita e la proprietà terriera quasi sempre ribelle; una straordinaria pluralità di tessuti urbani, di ordinamenti giuridici, di parti politiche in confitto fra loro. La seconda è che questi prodotti culturali disordinati, plurali, e complessi rafforzarono in gran parte dell'Europa la cosiddetta società civile come contrappeso all'inevitabile rigida fragilità della politica. La terza è che l'età moderna culmina alla fine dell'Ottocento, nella cosiddetta età dell'imperialismo, prima dell'incredibile suicidio europeo della Grande Guerra. Di conseguenza, non è più molto interessante definire l'età contemporanea come completamento del moderno, ma semmai distinguere la modernità da un tempo postmoderno che si apre con le due guerre mondiali e coincide col relativo tramonto dell'Europa e col parziale fallimento della sua identità. (Da sito Einaudi)
Vedi indicePrefazione
Cronologia
I. Le risorse sociali degli europei
II. I sistemi politici
III. La scoperta della complessità
IV. Guerre, fazioni e politica
V. Monarchie, repubbliche e politiche riformatrici
VI. La flessibilità delle armi europee
VII. La rivoluzione e la controrivoluzione
VIII. Lo strapotere degli occidentali
Nota bibliografica
Indice analitico lessico
Indice dei nomi di persona
Indice dei nomi di luogo
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Chlevnjuk Oleg
Storia del Gulag: dalla collettivizzazione al Grande terrore
Torino: Einaudi, 2006.
Indice non disponibile
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Storia della Shoah. La crisi dell'Europa, lo sterminio degli ebrei e la memoria del XX secolo
5 volumi, 3 DVD Video
Torino: UTET, 2005.
La Storia della Shoah, nata sotto la direzione di un collettivo di studiosi italiani coadiuvati da un comitato scientifico comprendente alcuni tra i maggiori specialisti internazionalmente riconosciuti, analizza il genocidio degli ebrei non soltanto come un evento geograficamente e cronologicamente circoscritto ma, più in generale, come un nodo problematico della storia del Novecento. L’evento, con la sua singolarità e la sua estrema condensazione temporale durante la guerra, è inevitabilmente posto al centro dell’opera, che ne ricostruisce il processo, le strutture, le forme, le tappe, gli attori. Ma pur prestando la necessaria attenzione all’evento, la Shoah è studiata come un problema storico nel senso più ampio del termine, cercando di sondarne l’impatto sulla formazione della memoria e sulla cultura del mondo occidentale. (Da sito UTET)
Vedi indiceVolume 1 La crisi dell’Europa: le origini e il contesto
Volume 2 La distruzione degli ebrei
Volume 3 Riflessioni, luoghi della memoria, risoluzioni
Volume 4 Eredità, rappresentazioni, identità
Volume 5 Documenti
3 DVD Video
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Cipolla Carlo M.
Storia economica dell'Europa pre-industriale
Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009
Questo grande affresco storico illustra come tra il secolo X e il secolo XVIII l'Europa sia riuscita con le sole sue forze a trasformarsi da area periferica e sottosviluppata a centro motore dell'economia mondiale. Con la maestria storiografica che era il suo sigillo, Cipolla mostra come il predominio mondiale acquisito dall'Europa nei secoli XVIII e XIX non sia stato un fenomeno casuale e improvviso, ma l'inevitabile conseguenza degli sviluppi culturali, tecnologici ed economici che si verificarono nel corso del Medioevo e del Rinascimento. (Da sito Il Mulino)
Vedi indicePARTE PRIMA: UN'APPROSSIMAZIONE STATICA
Introduzione
1. La domanda
2. I fattori produttivi
3. Produttività e produzione
PARTE SECONDA: VERSO UNA DESCRIZIONE DINAMICA
Introduzione
1. La rivoluzione urbana
2. La popolazione
3. La storia della tecnologia
4. Imprese, credito e moneta
5. La politica economica
6. Redditi, produzione e consumi: 1000-1500
7. Il ribaltamento dell'equilibrio mondiale e intra-europeo: 1500-1700
8. La fine di un mondo che fu
Bibliografia
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