Europe's Troubled Peace

This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement.

• Thoroughly revised and expanded, this integrated history of Europe now covers the end of the Second World War up to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century
• Includes new sections on immigration and ethnicity in Europe after the Cold War, and the role of historical memory in contemporary Europe
• A final new chapter assesses the role of Europe within the wider world of the twenty-first century, the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the “War on Terror” on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe following EU enlargement
• Covers the history of central and eastern Europe in depth, as well as that of Western Europe
• Discusses in detail the impact of the Cold War across the continent
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