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A history of modern Europe

by John M. Merriman

Why a new history of modern Europe? The collapse of communism in 1989-1990 and the break-up of the Soviet have redrawn the map of central and eastern europe. A reconfigured Europe calls for a new history. This survey of modern European history explores the roots of the economic and political problems that continue to beset Western and Eastern Europe. For example, it shows how the simmering ethnic tensions that bursts into bloody civil war in Bosnia after the desintegration of Yugoslavia echoed the quarrels that eroded that stately Habsburg monarchy a century earlier.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?