[PDF] Europe After Empire eBook

Author : Elizabeth Buettner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 131659470X

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Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result of the path to decolonization: so too was Western Europe, with imperial traces scattered throughout popular and elite cultures, consumer goods, religious life, political formations, and ideological terrains. People were also inwardly mobile, including not simply Europeans returning 'home' but Asians, Africans, West Indians, and others who made their way to Europe to forge new lives. The result is a Europe fundamentally transformed by multicultural diversity and cultural hybridity and by the destabilization of assumptions about race, culture, and the meanings of place, and where imperial legacies and memories live on.

Author : Geir Lundestad
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191647780

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Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945. The relationship between the United States and Western Europe has always been crucial and recent events dictate that it is becoming ever more so. In this important new work, Geir Lundestad analyses the balance between the cooperation and conflict which has characterized this relationship in the post-war period. He examines talk of transatlantic drift, and the strain now apparent between the USA and the nation states of Western Europe. In the concluding section, Lundestad offers a topical view of the future of transatlantic interaction. Throughout the work Lundestad's much cited 'empire by invitation' thesis is both put into practice and extended in time and scope. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important and enduring international relationships of the last sixty years.

Author : Victoria De Grazia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674031180

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The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in de Grazia's account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, de Grazia describes how all alternative strategies fell before America's consumer-oriented capitalism--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning.--From publisher description.

Author : Emmanuel Todd
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231131025

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A historian and anthropologist use demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 9780745338415

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Europe as we've known it is a dying myth, but colonial relations live on.

Author : James R. Lehning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521518709

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The only textbook to survey the major Atlantic, Asian and African empires of Europe, from 1700 through decolonization in 1945.

Author : Craig Koslofsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521896436

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This illuminating guide to the night opens up an entirely new vista on early modern Europe. Using diaries, letters, legal records and representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky explores the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced and transformed the night.

Author : Dina Gusejnova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107120624

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Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.

Author : Tony Judt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143037750

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.