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A Companion to Modern European History: 1871-1945

ISBN: 978-0-631-19218-3

September 1997

Wiley-Blackwell

432 pages

Description

Its sixteen thematic chapters - each written by an expert in the field - cover social and economic developments, the rise and fall of all the major political movements as well as the immense changes generated by war and international diplomacy across Europe.

About the Author

Martin Pugh is Research Professor in History at Liverpool John Moores University. His previous books include Electoral Reform in War and Peace (1978), The Tories and the People (1985), Women and the Women's Movement in Britain (1992), The March of the Women: a revisionist analysis of the women's suffrage movement (2000), and The Making of Modern British Politics (3rd Edition 2001, Blackwell).

Features
* Provides an analytical, historiographical and thematic companion to the period.
* Offers a bridge between introductory survey courses and library and research work of advanced students.
* Covers social, economic and intellectual movements as well as politics and international affairs.
* Supported by biographies of the major figures, a guide to further reading, and a chronology of the main events.