A history of modern Europe

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.