Europe, 1880-1945Suitable for 19th and 20th century Europe/modern Europe undergraduate courses.This well-established and immensely successful book provides a standard introduction to the subject by one of Britain's most popular historians. Social, economic and social history are skillfully integrated within a framework of political narrative history. |
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What this book is about | 1 |
Europe in 1880 | 8 |
The ancien régime | 41 |
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