War, peace, and social change in twentieth-century Europe

Abstract

Total war warfare in the 20th century - theory and practice the persistence of the old regime French literature and its background -the birth of the Modern (1855-1914) domestic conflict and the origins of the First World War - the British and the German cases Italian peasant women and the First World War out common history - the transformation of Europe army, industry and labour in Germany recasting bourgeois Europe conquest, foreign and domestic, in fascist Italy and nazi Germany Hitler's foreign policy the origins of the Second World War reconsidered - the AJP Taylor debate after 25 years Hitler's war and the Germany economy - a re-interpretation the effect of World War II on French society and politics the levelling of class war and social change, British society in the Second World War the impact of World War II on Leningrad the impact of World War II in the Soviet Union World War II and social change in Germany total war and social change.