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1 online resource (245 pages). |
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text file |
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The Human Tradition around the World series
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Human tradition around the world.
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| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction CHERYL A. KOOS AND CORA GRANATA; Chapter 1 The French Revolution Defining the Nation: The Abbé Grégoire and the Problem of Diversity in the French Revolution Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall; Chapter 2 The Age of Reaction and Revolutions in the Early Nineteenth Century Arnold Ruge: Radicalism in a Reactionary Society Karin Breuer; Chapter 3 Industrialization and the Rise of Marxism The World of Textile Work: French Industrial Workers and the Labor Movement Helen Harden Chenut. |
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Chapter 4 Victorian Culture and Travel Writing Alison Cunningham: Victorian Leisure Travel, Religious Identity, and the Grand Tour Journal of a Domestic Servant Michele StrongChapter 5 New Imperialism Strategies of Inclusion: Lajpat Rai and the Critique of the British Raj Robert A. McLain; Chapter 6 Fin de Siècle Culture and the New Woman Colette: The New Woman Takes the Stage in Belle Époque France Patricia Tilburg; Chapter 7 World War I and Literary Responses ""All Quiet"" on the Don and the Western Front: Mikhail Sholokhov and Erich Maria Remarque Respond to World War I Karen Petrone. |
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Chapter 8 Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union ""Ask the Doctor!"": Peasants and Medical-Sexual Advice in Riazan Province, 1925-1928 Stephen P. FrankChapter 9 Italian Fascism In the Name of an Italian Widow: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Gender in Mussolini's Fascist Italy Maura E. Hametz; Chapter 10 Nazism and the Holocaust The Herbert Baum Groups: Networks of Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Resistance in the Third Reich John Cox; Chapter 11 Decolonization and Postcolonial Memory Imperialists without an Empire: Cercles Coloniaux and Colonial Culture in Belgium after 1960 Matthew G. Stanard. |
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Chapter 12 Americanization and Postwar Modernization Adriano Olivetti: Agent of Italian-American Exchange in the Postwar Years Paolo ScrivanoChapter 13 1968 Youth Revolts Ab-Norrnalization: The Plastic People of the Universe and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia Michael Kilburn; Chapter 14 1989 and the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc Why Not All Germans Celebrated the Fall of the Berlin Wall: East German Jews and the Collapse of Communism Cora Granata; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors. |
| Summary |
This engaging and humanizing text traces the development of Europe since the mid-eighteenth century through the lives of people of the time. Capturing key moments, themes, and events in the continent's turbulent modern past, the book explores how ordinary Europeans both shaped their societies and were affected by larger historical processes. By focusing on the lives of individual actors, both famous and obscure, students can gain a sense for how the well-known revolutions, wars, and social transformations of the modern era were experienced in private homes, work places, political forums, and o. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Europe -- History.
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Europe -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Europe -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1750-1989 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Koos, Cheryl A., 1966-
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Breuer, Karin.
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Chenut, Helen Harden.
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Cox, John.
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Frank, Stephen P.
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Hametz, Maura Elise.
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Kilburn, Michael.
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McLain, Robert A.
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Petrone, Karen.
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Scrivano, Paolo.
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Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein.
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Stanard, Matthew G.
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Strong, Michele M.
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PatriciaTilburg.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Granata, Cora. Human Tradition in Modern Europe, 1750 to the Present. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2007 9780742554115 |
| ISBN |
9781461644378 |
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1461644372 |
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9780742554108 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780742554115 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0742554104 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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0742554112 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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