The European Journey from Uncertainty to Insecurity: 1950–2017

Abstract

Michal J. Zacharias presents the work of the British historian Ian Kershaw on the history of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first century. The work is a synthesis. It should be emphasised here that in Kershaw’s view, the history of the Old Continent is not a simple sum of the histories of individual European countries. In the first place, the British researcher discusses the most critical problems and historical phenomena from the European perspective, which in his reflections are the most important states and nations. This is not without a specific reason because their history best illuminates and explains the causes and course, significance and consequences of complex events and historical processes.