Broad in geographical scope, this collection explores the most important transformations and upheavals of post-1945 Europe in the light of recent scholarship. A wide array of authors from the UK, US and across Europe contribute twelve chapters consider key political, cultural and economic changes of an era that needs reevalutaion and reconsideration from a historical perspective.Cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of issues - politics, economics, social and cultural aspects Themes in Modern European History is structured around recent theoretical debates on the postwar. 1945 onwards saw unprecedented economic growth in the 'golden age' of prosperity up to 1973, and it witnessed a social flux that dramatically transformed the fabric of European society. After 1989, Europe grappled with the East European revolutions and faced the challenge of reintegrating the continent after 75 years of partition and conflict. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the concept of 'European civilization' remains ambiguous.