Out of Ashes (ebook)

Argumento de Out of Ashes (ebook)

"Jarausch has written a groundbreaking study of 20th-century European history."--Choice

"Konrad Jarauschs ambitious and sprawling new book, Out of Ashes, seems like a text for our times. . . . Jarausch examines Europes recent past, pursuing a fundamental question--namely, what is modernization?--that connects the continents violently ideological dark times to its postwar renewal and ambiguous future."--Commonweal

"Jarauschs book really comes into its own when dealing with the second half of the century. Here, he wonderfully pulls together various strands of the story of European integration and decolonisation, Cold War and the creation of the welfare state, deindustrialisation and globalisation."--Srinath Raghavan, Open Magazine

"Out of Ashes is the magnum opus of an outstanding scholar. Konrad Jarausch narrates the rise, fall, and rebirth of Europe in the twentieth century as an unparalleled drama full of dark sides and catastrophes, but also of progress and hope. He makes the study of European history an intellectual adventure again."--Jürgen Kocka, Free University of Berlin

"Europe's Faustian bargain is the subject of Konrad Jarausch's authoritative new history of Europe. This is a history of the groundswell of material progress--from science and technology to production and consumption--and the inability to master it. The failure to meet these challenges spiraled into a devastating politics of destruction in the First and Second World Wars that was stopped only at the cost of a Cold War. Would the collapse of 1989 jump-start a new and more modest European order in a global world? Out of Ashes points to the lessons learned as well as to the current predicaments Europe faces."--Michael Geyer, University of Chicago

"This is a well-written, well-organized, and detailed study of a notoriously difficult subject: Europe in the twentieth century. Jarausch deftly guides readers through the important developments that led through two wars to our unstable present."--John Connelly, author of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965

"Out of Ashes is an extremely well-conceived and highly ambitious book. What Jarausch has pulled off is a fully balanced, elegantly integrated history of a long twentieth century in which the pre-1914 era and the post-1989 years are vital parts of the interpretation."--Peter Fritzsche, author of Life and Death in the Third Reich

"This book is a sweeping study of twentieth-century European history, read through the lens of multiple modernities. Written by one of the leading lights of modern German and European history, Out of Ashes has the power to stake its place as a volume of truly lasting value."--Belinda J. Davis, author of Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers

"All told, this magnum opus is the outstanding achievement of a scholar who is himself in his early seventies--a good age for historians. Jarausch is one of the very few who have dared to write a history of Europe covering the entire long 20th century. Strictly speaking only Mark Mazower has run this risk in the Anglophone world. Konrad Jarausch presents an original work with a consistent conception, a completely convincing narrative of its own, a high analytical grasp of the grand lines as well as of the details as well as enormous knowledge and incredible command of the literature. Based on considerable skepticism and realism [it sends] a fairly positive message for Americans and Europeans about the recent European past."--Hartmut Kaelble, H-Solz-Kult

"[Out of Ashes] should be on the shelf of everyone seeking a panoramic, narrative guide to history's most violent century. This comprehensive history of 20th-century Europe is bound to become the standard work on its subject: a bold, major achievement."--Publishers Weekly, starred review0Preface vii
Introduction: The European Paradox 1
Part I: Promise of Progress, 1900?1929
1. Global Domination 19
2. Breakdown of Peace 46
3. Waging Total War 73
4. Bolshevik Revolution 102
5. Democratic Hopes 128
6. Fascist Alternative 155
7. Modernist Provocations 181
Part II: Turn to Self-Destruction, 1929?45
8. Devastating Depression 209
9. Stalinist Modernization 235
10. Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft 261
11. Unleashing World War II 287
12. Axis Conquest 314
13. Nazi Holocaust 341
14. Bitter Victory 369
Part III: Surprising Recovery, 1945?73
15. Democratic Renewal 399
16. Dictating Communism 426
17. Cold War Crises 452
18. Disappointing Decolonization 480
19. Economic Integration 506
20. Pop and Prosperity 533
21. Planning Social Reform 559
Part IV: Confronting Globalization, 1973?2000
22. Revolt against Modernity 587
23. Postindustrial Transition 613
24. Return to Détente 639
25. Peaceful Revolution 666
26. Transforming the East 694
27. Global Challenges 721
28. Prospects for the Twenty-first Century 747
Postscript: A Chastened Modernity 773
Acknowledgments 789
Notes 791
Index 851