Documents

Author(s)

• Marwick, Arthur
• Simpson, Wendy
• Open University. A318 course team

Bibliographic Information

Documents

edited by Arthur Marwick and Wendy Simpson

（War, peace, and social change : Europe 1900-1955）

Open University Press in association with the Open University, 1990

• 1. 1900-1929
• 1. 1900-1929 : pbk
• 2. 1925-1959
• 2. 1925-1959 : pbk

Note

Material associated with Open University Course A318 War, peace, and social change : Europe 1900-1955

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1. 1900-1929 : pbk ISBN 9780335093007

Description

The subject of war, peace and social change - an essential one in the study of 20th-century European history - gives rise to many debates. These can be followed in the writings of historians but they should also be studied from the primary sources. In all their variety primary sources bring one directly into contact with the real texture of history. Reproduced here is a collection of extracts from diaries, social surveys, acts of parliament, international treaties, novels and poems, newspaper reports, and texts taken from many different countries. Together with its companion volume, "Documents 1929-1959", the collection is designed to accompany the Open University course, A318 War, Peace and Social Change; Europe 1900-1955. It will prove useful to anyone interested in 20th-century Europan history and especially to anyone with a particular interest in social history.

Table of Contents

• Section 1 - the period up to 1914
• section 2 - the period of the First World War and its aftermath.

Volume

1. 1900-1929 ISBN 9780335093014

Description

The subject of war, peace and social change - an essential one in the study of 20th-century European history - gives rise to many debates. These can be followed in the writings of historians but they should also be studied from the primary sources. In all their variety primary sources bring one directly into contact with the real texture of history. Reproduced here is a collection of extracts from diaries, social surveys, acts of parliament, international treaties, novels and poems, newspaper reports, and texts taken from many different countries. Together with its companion volume, "Documents 1929-1959", the collection is designed to accompany the Open University course, A318 War, Peace and Social Change; Europe 1900-1955. It will prove useful to anyone interested in 20th-century Europan history and especially to anyone with a particular interest in social history.

Table of Contents

• Section 1 - the period up to 1914
• section 2 - the period of the First World War and its aftermath.

Volume

2. 1925-1959 : pbk ISBN 9780335093021

Description

The subject of war, peace and social change - an essential one in the study of 20th-century European history - gives rise to many debates. These can be followed in the writings of historians but they should also be studied from the primary sources. In all their variety primary sources bring one directly into contact with the real texture of history. Reproduced here is a collection of extracts from diaries, social surveys, acts of parliament, international treaties, novels and poems, newspaper reports, and texts taken from many different countries. Together with its companion volume, "Documents 1900-1929", the collection is designed to accompany the Open University course, A318 War, Peace and Social Change; Europe 1900-1955. It will prove useful to anyone interested in 20th-century Europan history and especially to anyone with a particular interest in social history.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Between two wars: France, Germany and the UK, industrial disputes, 1914-39
• number of seats won and percentage of votes in German Reichstag, 1918-33, French Chambre des Deputes, 1902-36, British House of Commons, 1918-45
• summary of governments of Germany, 1919-32, France, 1918-40, Britain, 1919-39
• mark/dollar exchange rate, 1914-23, Reich cost of living index February 1920-December 1923
• unemployment in Germany, Britain and France, 1919-39
• indices of industrial production for major industrialized countries, 1927-1935
• "The Matignon Agreement" (1936)
• wages, prices and real earnings, Great Britain, 1913-38
• Benito Mussolini, extracts from "The doctrine of fascism" (1932)
• Gaetano Salvemini, "How the dictatorship arose" (1928)
• report of the American Consul in Leipzig (21 November 1938)
• Adolf Hitler, "Memorandum on the Four-Year Plan" (August 1936)
• Anatoli Lunacharsky, "The tasks of the state cinema in the RSFSR" (1919)
• Pavel Petrov-Bytov, "We have no Soviet cinema" (21 April 1929)
• Adolf Hitler, speech from the "Twilight Rally" sequence of "Triumph of the Will" (1935)
• John Reith "The best of everything" (1924)
• John Reith, on the BBC's coverage of the General Strike, May 1926 (15 May 1926)
• parliamentary discussion on censorship and restriction of liberty (7 December 1938)
• extracts from the reply of the Allied and Associated Powers to the observations of the German delegation on the Conditions of Peace (16 June 1919)
• Jan Smuts, letter to Lloyd George (26 March 1919)
• Adolf Hitler, speech to the Reichstag (7 March 1936)
• R. Barrington-Ward editorial in "The Times" (9 March 1936)
• Eric Dunstan, commentary to "The Rhine" (12 March 1936)
• Neville Chamberlain, extract from speech to House of Commons (24 March 1938). Part 2 World War II and its consequences: "order concerning the exercise of martial jurisdiction and procedure in the area "Barbarossa" and special military measures" (13 May 1941
• "top secret - supplement to Order no. 33" (23 July 1941)
• Generaloberst Franz Halder, affidavit at Nurnberg (22 November 1945)
• Milovan Djilas, extract from "Wartime" (1977)
• "The Atlantic Charter", joint statement by President of the United States and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1941)
• Josef Stalin, extract from speech to the Moscow Soviet and representatives of Moscow Party and public organizations on the 25th anniversary of the October revolution (6 November 1942)
• "The Crimea Declaration - a statement issued by the Prime Minister, President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin at Yalta" (12 February 1945). (Part contents).

Volume

2. 1925-1959 ISBN 9780335093038

Description

The subject of war, peace and social change - an essential one in the study of 20th-century European history - gives rise to many debates. These can be followed in the writings of historians but they should also be studied from the primary sources. In all their variety primary sources bring one directly into contact with the real texture of history. Reproduced here is a collection of extracts from diaries, social surveys, acts of parliament, international treaties, novels and poems, newspaper reports, and texts taken from many different countries. Together with its companion volume, "Documents 1900-1929", the collection is designed to accompany the Open University course, A318 War, Peace and Social Change; Europe 1900-1955. It will prove useful to anyone interested in 20th-century Europan history and especially to anyone with a particular interest in social history.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Between two wars: France, Germany and the UK, industrial disputes, 1914-39
• number of seats won and percentage of votes in German Reichstag, 1918-33, French Chambre des Deputes, 1902-36, British House of Commons, 1918-45
• summary of governments of Germany, 1919-32, France, 1918-40, Britain, 1919-39
• mark/dollar exchange rate, 1914-23, Reich cost of living index February 1920-December 1923
• unemployment in Germany, Britain and France, 1919-39
• indices of industrial production for major industrialized countries, 1927-1935
• "The Matignon Agreement" (1936)
• wages, prices and real earnings, Great Britain, 1913-38
• Benito Mussolini, extracts from "The doctrine of fascism" (1932)
• Gaetano Salvemini, "How the dictatorship arose" (1928)
• report of the American Consul in Leipzig (21 November 1938)
• Adolf Hitler, "Memorandum on the Four-Year Plan" (August 1936)
• Anatoli Lunacharsky, "The tasks of the state cinema in the RSFSR" (1919)
• Pavel Petrov-Bytov, "We have no Soviet cinema" (21 April 1929)
• Adolf Hitler, speech from the "Twilight Rally" sequence of "Triumph of the Will" (1935)
• John Reith "The best of everything" (1924)
• John Reith, on the BBC's coverage of the General Strike, May 1926 (15 May 1926)
• parliamentary discussion on censorship and restriction of liberty (7 December 1938)
• extracts from the reply of the Allied and Associated Powers to the observations of the German delegation on the Conditions of Peace (16 June 1919)
• Jan Smuts, letter to Lloyd George (26 March 1919)
• Adolf Hitler, speech to the Reichstag (7 March 1936)
• R. Barrington-Ward editorial in "The Times" (9 March 1936)
• Eric Dunstan, commentary to "The Rhine" (12 March 1936)
• Neville Chamberlain, extract from speech to House of Commons (24 March 1938). Part 2 World War II and its consequences: "order concerning the exercise of martial jurisdiction and procedure in the area "Barbarossa" and special military measures" (13 May 1941
• "top secret - supplement to Order no. 33" (23 July 1941)
• Generaloberst Franz Halder, affidavit at Nurenberg (22 November 1945)
• Milovan Djilas, extract from "Wartime" (1977)
• "The Atlantic Charter", joint statement by President of the United States and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1941)
• Josef Stalin, extract from speech to the Moscow Soviet and representatives of Moscow Party and public organizations on the 25th anniversary of the October revolution (6 November 1942)
• "The Crimea Declaration - a statement issued by the Prime Minister, President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin at Yalta" (12 February 1945). (Part contents).

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• NCID: BA11304168
• ISBN:
  • 0335093019
  • 0335093000
  • 0335093035
  • 0335093027
• LCCN: 89023127
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Buckingham [England] ; Bristol, Pa.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D521
  • DC20 : 940.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes -- Sources
  • LCSH : World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence -- Sources
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes -- Sources
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence -- Sources
  • LCSH : Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Sources
  • LCSH : Social change -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11304339