A fascinating panorama of European history from the end of the 19th century until the present day
After 1900, the Europeans increasingly forfeited their global leadership role, but also sought out new ways to assert themselves. Christoph Cornelißen writes of the breakthrough of modern nationalism and the nation state, economic and social change, as well as grand ideas and utopias, whose interplay gave rise to enormouly destructive forces - from the civil wars around 1900 to the World Wars and the Holocaust and the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. But the promise of political participation and social security was no less important. And so the volume shows how central democracy is for Europe's role in the world - and why it is worth preserving.
