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Europe in the 20th Century |
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Authors: |
Margaritis, George |
Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > CONTEMPORARY HISTORY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > WORLD HISTORY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > HISTORY OF COUNTRIES > EUROPE, MEDITERRANEAN, MIDDLE EAST HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > MILITARY HISTORY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > DIPLOMATIC HISTORY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > MODERN HISTORY |
Keywords: |
European history
Contemporary history History of the 20th Century Colonialism World Wars |
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Abstract: |
This textbook traces the history of Europe in the 20th century - a European century. In the 19th century the European Powers shaped the world. It was the end of a long procedure. Europe experienced a continuous rise in the previous centuries. A rise that progressively differentiated him from all the rest of the human entities of the world. In the background of its rise was the development, and eventually the adoption and dominance, of the most radical mode of production that humanity had ever known: capitalism.
Europe, that is the main powers of the continent, became the cradle of this new mode of production. During the 19th century, successive industrial revolutions gave to the European system enormous power. With it he conquered the oceans and, through them, the whole world. It was what we called the period of late colonization, colonialism. Underlying the cataclysmic rush is a need: the violent imposition of the capitalist mode of production – and the accompanying civilization – on the entire planet.
Europe's triumph brought with it the seeds of decay. Colonialism had overwhelmingly benefited Britain, France while the "new" powers, Germany and Italy, felt that European triumph did not include them. In the east there was the combustible matter: the three anachronistic empires, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, extremely vulnerable to the currents of the times. Their disintegration created a vacuum around which a multitude of claimants crowded. Starting from the developments in the Ottoman area, Belle Epoque’s Europe was led to the First World War.
This war did not settle European affairs. A second, even more devastating one did not provide solutions. European power had now entered a period of weakening and exit from the central world political scene. The Cold War, decolonization, and a unification attempt with defensive characteristics closed the "European" twentieth century.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Iordanidou, Dossy |
Graphic Editors: |
Tsionis, Elias |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 04-06-2024 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-228-255-7 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-997 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/13497 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Margaritis, G. (2024). Europe in the 20th Century [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-997 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Europe and the World 2. The Unification of the World: Colonialism 3. The Assurance Era 4. The Great War: From Balkans to Marne 5. The Great War 6. After the Great War 7. The Illusions Era: Interwar 8. The German "unification of Europe" 9. New Europe”: 1940-1944 10. The End of Nazism and of “New Europe” 11. From World War to the Cold War 12. De-colonization 13. The “Western World”: Europe in the Shadow of USA |
Number of pages |
376 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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