The European Journey from Uncertainty to Insecurity: 1950–2017 Cover Image

Europejska droga od niepewności do niepewności: 1950–2017
The European Journey from Uncertainty to Insecurity: 1950–2017

Author(s): Michał Jerzy Zacharias
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Economic history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Financial Markets, Globalization
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: post-war division of Europe; Cold War; post-war economy; integration processes; social issues; protest of the 1960s; 1973 and 1979 oil crises and their consequences; cultural and mental changes;

Summary/Abstract: Michal J. Zacharias presents the work of the British historian Ian Kershaw on the history of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first century. The work is a synthesis. It should be emphasised here that in Kershaw’s view, the history of the Old Continent is not a simple sum of the histories of individual European countries. In the first place, the British researcher discusses the most critical problems and historical phenomena from the European perspective, which in his reflections are the most important states and nations. This is not without a specific reason because their history best illuminates and explains the causes and course, significance and consequences of complex events and historical processes.

  • Issue Year: 53/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 163-192
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish