This book summarizes the main issues relating to war, peace and social change in 20th-century Europe. In the first section, on the nature and causes of war, it discusses how far total war differs from other kinds of war, what the relationships are between international war, civil war and internal war, and between war and revolution, and whether there were basic causes of war in the 20th-century or if the origins of the two wars were different. The next section is on the processes of change and asks whether long-term needs were such that the social developments of the 20th-century would have been much the same even if there had been no wars. The final section of the book summarizes and analyzes the debates over exactly what effects the two world wars have had on both geopolitical and social developments in the 20th century.
- ISBN10 0335093132
- ISBN13 9780335093137
- Publish Date 1 September 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 June 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English