
The Global Age
Europe 1950-2017
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James Langton
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Ian Kershaw
The the final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities.
Yet Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. There were, by most definitions, striking successes: the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished, and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The interlocking crises after 2008 were the clearest warnings to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability, and, even today, the continent threatens further fracturing.
In this remarkable audiobook, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across Europe, The Global Age is an endlessly fascinating portrait of the recent past and present and a cautious look into our future.
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"The sunnier, postwar tale frames The Global Age, the second volume of his expertly crafted history of modern Europe...he has produced an accessible scholarly synthesis, panoramic in scope and sound in judgment.... The Global Age is a heavy but elegant book.” (Wall Street Journal)
“The history of Europe over the last 70 years - as traced and explained brilliantly in Ian Kershaw’s magisterial The Global Age: Europe, 1950-2017 - should give at least some credence to the argument that things are not as bad as they seem.” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Kershaw directs his considerable talents to the fall of the Berlin Wall, reunification of Germany, and the ‘global exposure’ of newly vulnerable Europe...this is a terrific roundup by a trusted historian, featuring an extensive bibliography for further reading.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
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I'm perhaps over-stressing this because Kershaw ends his book with these opinions, but overall the book is recommended for covering the last 70 years fairly.
Comprehensive with surprising details
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Living through these current events and knowing the author is only giving the left wing point of view makes me wonder if his history of the earlier years are tilted left as well...
Other than that it was a pretty good history of the last 68 years of Europe
Slightly biased to the left
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Overall a good survey
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Good book
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Note: Not an objective history
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Unfortunately, this book is not nearly as an objective historical coverage of the period as i expected. Particularly the second half of the book is obnoxiously infested with the authors personal perspective and biases, like, according to the author, terrorism on European soil to a large extent explained by European interference in the Middle East - for effect this is repeated in the final chapter, economic inequality being a problem requiring redistribution policies to be implemented - so the author wants the present economic cake to be shared from one group of people to another, no suggestion as to how to ensure growing the economic cake, global warming is the largest problem facing the Europe and the author decides solution cannot involve nuclear energy or continued growing emission of CO2 - how this will influence the economic inequality in Europe the author has now view on.
I was disappointed with this book. It promised so much and unfortunately delivered to a great extent a traditional liberal lecture on Europe’s problems, which the title did not suggest.
Second half of book big disappointment!
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