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Title:
Europe since 1989 : a history
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Physical Description:
xi, 425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780691167374
Abstract:
This book describes how liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had catastrophic effects on former Soviet Bloc countries from the period of 1989 to the present.
General Note:
Translation of: Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent : eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa. Published: Berlin : Suhrkamp, 2014.
Contents:
Introduction -- Where the East meets the West: crisis -- The revolutions of 1989-91 -- Getting on the neoliberal bandwagon -- Second-wave neoliberalism -- Capital cities compared -- The Great Recession: 2008-9 and its consequences -- Southern Europe: the new East? -- Cotransformation: the case of Germany -- The roads not taken.
Language:
English
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