By John Merriman / Jay Winter (Editors)
This set provides Europes significant old occasions among 1914 and 2005 and explores the political, army, social, cultural, and technological adjustments of this era. also, the encyclopedia examines Europes international impact and ecu unification. Edited through professors of historical past at Yale collage, it's the significant other to Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of and Empire (2006). as well as the most textual content, the encyclopedia comprises different priceless gains. for instance, quantity 1 opens with a seven-page introductory essay that offers a picture of Europes post-1914 background. Volume_1 additionally includes a chronology of significant occasions prepared either through yr and by way of subject (for instance, Literature and the humanities, battle and Armed Conflict). furthermore, all of the 5 volumes incorporates a set of 9 maps, together with ones depicting the Versailles cost, The Gulag at Its Zenith, and Post-1945 Europe. The textual content is complemented by way of black-and-white illustrations. also, an eight-page element of colour plates with a specific subject (for instance, pop culture, Soviet Union and Communism) is contained in every one quantity. ultimately, quantity five has an in depth index, which enables entry to the most textual content.
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AND HERZ. GREECE TURKEY Mediterranean Sea MALTA (joined 2004) xxxviii CYPRUS E U R O P E S I N C E 1 9 1 4 CHRONOLOGY The chronology is arranged by year from 1914 to 2005 and is organized under seven major headings that cover the encyclopedia’s scope both thematically and over time. Most items listed below are discussed in the encyclopedia’s articles and can be found by referring to the table of contents and the index. Because the section headings are not always mutually exclusive, certain events may be listed under more than one heading.
I. Lenin dies; UK: Ramsay MacDonald forms first Labour Party government; assassination of Giacomo Matteotti; French Cartel des Gauches xliv SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ECONOMY AND SOCIETY USSR: New Economic Policy (NEP) instituted; Germany receives reparations bill British archaeologists rediscover King Tutankhamen’s tomb; Russian A. A. Friedmann postulates expanding universe Austrian finances stabilized Rampant inflation in Germany; Rentenmark introduced; Le Mans car race established Otto Rank, Das Trauma der Geburt und seine Bedeutung fu ¨ r die Psychoanalyse Dawes Plan E U R O P E S I N C E 1 9 1 4 CHRONOLOGY LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Jaroslav Hasˇek, The Good Soldier Schweik, 1921–1923; Russian constructivist program published; Fernand Le´ger, Le Grand De´jeuner; Pablo Picasso, Three Women at the Spring INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND RELIGION WAR AND ARMED CONFLICT EUROPE AND THE WORLD Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus LogioPhilosophicus Irish Civil War, 1921–1923; Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) founded Cairo Conference; Moroccan Revolt, 1921–1926 1921 Egypt nominally gains independence from UK 1922 James Joyce, Ulysses; BBC founded; T.
Lenin dies; UK: Ramsay MacDonald forms first Labour Party government; assassination of Giacomo Matteotti; French Cartel des Gauches xliv SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ECONOMY AND SOCIETY USSR: New Economic Policy (NEP) instituted; Germany receives reparations bill British archaeologists rediscover King Tutankhamen’s tomb; Russian A. A. Friedmann postulates expanding universe Austrian finances stabilized Rampant inflation in Germany; Rentenmark introduced; Le Mans car race established Otto Rank, Das Trauma der Geburt und seine Bedeutung fu ¨ r die Psychoanalyse Dawes Plan E U R O P E S I N C E 1 9 1 4 CHRONOLOGY LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Jaroslav Hasˇek, The Good Soldier Schweik, 1921–1923; Russian constructivist program published; Fernand Le´ger, Le Grand De´jeuner; Pablo Picasso, Three Women at the Spring INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND RELIGION WAR AND ARMED CONFLICT EUROPE AND THE WORLD Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus LogioPhilosophicus Irish Civil War, 1921–1923; Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) founded Cairo Conference; Moroccan Revolt, 1921–1926 1921 Egypt nominally gains independence from UK 1922 James Joyce, Ulysses; BBC founded; T.