List of Maps. List of Illustrations. Introduction: Europe's Troubles. 1. The War and its Legacy. 2. Europe between the Powers, 1945--53. 3. Restoration, Reconstruction and Revolution: Europe 1945--50. 4. Consolidating Western Europe, 1950--1963. 5. Western Europe in the 1960s. 6. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, from 1953 to the 1970s. 7. Europe in the 1970s: Downturn and Detente. 8. Western Europe in the 1980s: The era of Thatcher, Mitterrand and Kohl. 9. European Integration: from Rome to Maastricht (1957--1992). 10. The fall of the Communist regimes: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1980--91. 11. Europe after the Cold War. 12. Conclusion. Notes. Guide to Further reading. Index.
Tom Buchanan is Reader in Modern History and Politics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Kellogg College. His previous publications include Britain and the Spanish Civil War (1997).
"This splendidly comprehensive, clear, balanced and fluently written textbook should be a top choice on the growing number of courses on the second half of the twentieth century. Buchanan effectively elucidates the key economic, social and cultural issues and trends. His brief summaries on the salient defining intellectual and cultural developments are downright brilliant." Choice "A refreshingly different take on European history. With this light and witty touch, Buchanan comes as close as anyone probably can to putting something for everyone into just about three hundred pages of European history. The themes are basic enough that Europe's Troubled Peace could conceivably be used to supplement an introductory survey, yet the details are there to intrigue upper-division students as well." Journal of Military History "The remarkably clear text outlines the familiar social and political changes, by way of a sharp but complex narrative of 55 dramatic years of tension and growth." History Today "Based on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, Tom Buchanan's text contains a remarkably concise, lucid, and judicious narrative that traces almost every major element of European history from the ruins of World War II to the tumult of the early 21st century. With vivid quotations and dollops of wit, Buchanan enlivens the political panorama; but he has also deftly underscored the essential economic, cultural, and social forces of change and continuity that have brought Europe from a divided continent to its new, still uncharted role in the world." Carole Fink, The Ohio State University "Europe's Troubled Peace is a lucid, comprehensive assessment of the old continent's remarkable recovery from the depths of destruction and despair after the Second World War. In particular, the book provides a very useful treatment of the important political, economic, and cultural developments within the major countries as they struggled to redefine their roles in Europe and the world during and after the Cold War." William R. Keylor, International History Institute, Boston University "Buchanan's work is a broad synthesis that would work well as a textbook in undergraduate and graduate courses on modern and contemporary European history. Crisply and lucidly written, it does an admirable job of incorporating the latest historiographical insights on a diverse array of countries and issues." The International History Review "Buchanan handles the balance between international and domestic political arenas extremely well, moving adeptly between the generalized narrative and particular countries." History Workshop Journal
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