02057nam a22002417a 4500 20211104113122.0 211104b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0306810638 AL eng 23 940.5 VINH Richard Vinen 9673 History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century Cambridge Da Capo Press 2000 xiii,628 p. HB 24x16 cm. The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that we all think we know it. The great stories of the century—the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism—seem self-evident in their importance. But behind the politics and the ideologies lies another history: the history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans…and the lives of men and women around the world. (Americans need only think of the way that the history of Europe has shaped the flow of immigrants to the U.S. and thereby altered our nation's history.)Richard Vinen contends that there is no single history that encompasses the experience of the century, but rather a multiplicity of different, interlocking histories—stories not only of politics and military movements, but also of culture, religion, sex, and demographics, related here with an unmatched eye for the telling detail and spiced with memorable anecdotes. As the Sunday Telegraph put it: "Vinen moves effortlessly from social and economic issues to politics, from ideology to military history. . . . The writing is lively, the enthusiasm infectious, and the gift for bold, epigrammatic summary genuinely impressive." A canvas encompassing both the broad and the particular, this is a major work of history—and history writing at its best. https://sites.google.com/a/ht.books-now.com/en241/9780306811791-65pasliGEcani67 History 9674 Social Conditions 9675 Politics and Government 9676 Europe 9677 VINEN (Richard) 9678 ddc GF 220377 220377 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 940.5 VINH GF03497 2021-11-04 00:00:00 https://sites.google.com/a/ht.books-now.com/en241/9780306811791-65pasliGEcani67 2021-11-04 GF