Modern Europe: Histories and Identities
Edited by Peter Monteath and Fredric Zuckerman

Year of publication: 1998
ISBN: 0 9585962 0 4

RRP: $AUS 19.95

In the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Empire in Europe's East and at a time of hesitant steps toward a supranational Europe in the West, questions of identity have been raised with an urgency recalling more troubled periods of European modernity. Then, as now, it was history which provided the architects of identity with their building blocks. Will the structures built with such blocks prove any more solid in the next millennium?

This collection unites wide-ranging essays by scholars from many coutnries dealing with histories and identities in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. From multiple perspectives they cast light on some of European history's enduring controversies as well as introduce some new ones.

Peter Monteath is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at The University of Adelaide, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary Europe. He is also the editor, with the late Reinhard Alter, of Rewriting the German Past: History and Identity in the New Germany (1997).

Fredric Zuckerman teaches European and, more specifically, Russian history at The University of Adelaide, where he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History. He is the author of The Tsarist Secret Police in Russian Society, 1880 - 1917 (1996).