A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000

A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000Since 1945 Europe has experienced many periods of turmoil and conflict and as many moments of peace and integration: from the devastation felt in the aftermath of World War II to the recovery in the 1950s and 1960s; to the new challenges in the 1970s and 1980s when neoliberal policies led to fundamental social and economic changes, marked by the effects of the oil shock and widespread unemployment; and then 1989 and after when the existing world order

tourists and the just plain curious to navigate the city in its pre-1949 incarnation

and service-learning and multicultural education

Their capitalist society is highly stratified

The alternation of an inner and outer focus in these selections allows the reader to explore the resonance between political thought and action

The eternal questions of identity

travel and nature

and media theory—Chimera offers a thoughtful response to common fears about futures driven by technology and science

and Greeks versus barbarians

His neoclassical approach assuages the current crisis in philosophical theism

this book reveals the complex and detailed history of the distribution

with clear

environmental conditions favouring disease