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Welcome to HIST224/333 Twentieth-Century Europe: From Empire to EU. This unit offers a political, social, cultural and economic overview of Europe's relations with the wider world throughout the twentieth century. It traces the obsession with race and the idea of empire throughout the first half of the century in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and considers the postcolonial view that the European 'civil wars' were a result of European practices of colonialism turned inward. Was Europe indeed the 'Dark Continent' suggested by Mark Mazower? The crisis of European liberalism in the face of the Great Depression, communism, the Spanish civil war, fascism and Nazism, two world wars and the Holocaust support such a view, but the second half the twentieth century presents a more complicated picture. We look at the Cold War, the Americanisation of Europe and the fall of communism; the effects of decolonisation and postcolonial immigration on European societies; the growth and eventual erosion of the welfare state; civil rights, peace and environmental movements; and the move from national competition to cooperation through the development of the EEC and the EU.
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