Buchanan - Europes Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present

Blackwell History of Europe

General Editor: John Stevenson

The series provides a new interpretative history of Europe from the Roman Empire to the end of the twentieth century. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, and reflecting the range of recent scholarship, the books combine insights from social and cultural history with coverage of political, diplomatic and economic developments. Eastern Europe assumes its rightful place in the history of the continent, and the boundary of Europe is considered flexibly, including the Islamic, Slav and Orthodox perspectives wherever appropriate. Together, the volumes offer a lively and authoritative history of Europe for a new generation of teachers, students and general readers.

Published

Europes Uncertain Path: 18141914
R. S. Alexander
Europe between Dictatorship and Democracy: 19001945
Conan Fischer
Europes Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present, second edition
Tom Buchanan
Europe in the Sixteenth Century
Andrew Pettegree
Fractured Europe: 16001721
David J. Sturdy

In preparation

Europe: 300800
Peter Heather
Europe in Ferment: 9501100
Jonathan Shepard
The Advance of Medieval Europe: 10991270
Jonathan Phillips
Europe: 14091523
Bruce Gordon
Europe from Absolutism to Revolution: 17151815
Michael Broers

This second edition first published 2012
2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Edition history: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (1e, 2006)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Buchanan, Tom, 1960
Europes troubled peace : 1945 to the present / Tom Buchanan. 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-470-65578-8 (pbk.)
1. EuropeHistory1945 I. Title.
D1051.B83 2012
940.55dc23

2011033745

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Acknowledgments for the First Edition

I would like to thank John Stevenson, the series editor, and Tessa Harvey, history commissioning editor at Wiley-Blackwell, for inviting me to write this book. Tessa and her staff have been unfailingly supportive and helpful as the project has come to fruition and I am particularly grateful to Angela Cohen for overseeing the final stages. The book was mainly written during sabbatical leave in Trinity term 2004: I would like to record my gratitude to the University of Oxford for granting me this period of leave, and to my colleagues at OUDCE, above all Christine Jackson and Diana Wood, for providing such magnificent cover both during my sabbatical and the years secondment that preceded it. I am indebted to John Stevenson, Andrew Latcham, and Martin Conway for reading the manuscript at varying stages of completion and making invaluable comments and corrections. Martin, in particular, has provided tremendous support and guidance throughout the whole project. Any remaining errors in the text are, of course, my responsibility. A work of synthesis such as this inevitably rests above all on the research carried out by the many scholars who have written on the history of postwar Europe. I very much hope that, without unduly burdening the text with footnotes, I have adequately indicated my debt to them. I must thank Julia and the boys for all of their patience and understanding when I was working on the book during the long summer of 2004.