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Informationen zum Autor Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and member of the British Academy and six European Academies of Sciences. His numerous publications include From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union (2009), An Economic History of Twentieth Century Europe (2006) and History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the 'Long' Nineteenth Century (2003). Klappentext History of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from Cold War to the European Union. Zusammenfassung Ivan Berend tells the dramatic story of the economic! social! political! and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union! charting the overwhelming impact of the collapse of communism on every aspect of European life and asking which way now for Europe? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Europe approaches the 1980s: the dual crises (1968-1980); 2. The end of 'Two Europes' and European integration; 3. The new cultural and political setting; 4. The economic response to globalization. Recovery and growth. The integration of eastern and western Europe; 5. Dramatic demographic and social changes, consumerism and the welfare state; Epilogue. Quo vadis Europa?; Bibliography.
