Awards

• Commended for 2017 Prix du Livre Europeen, Esprit d'Europe 2017
• Winner of Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 2016
• Winner of Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.

Overview

An award-winning history of the transformation of Europe between 1989 and todayIn this award-winning book, Philipp Ther provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe, offering a sweeping narrative filled with vivid details and memorable stories. Europe since 1989 shows how liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had catastrophic effects on former Soviet Bloc countries. Ther refutes the idea that this economic ""shock therapy"" was the basis of later growth, arguing that human capital and the ""transformation from below"" determined economic success or failure. He also shows how the capitalist West's effort to reshape Eastern Europe in its own likeness ended up reshaping Western Europe, especially Germany. Bringing the story up to the present, Ther compares Eastern and Southern Europe after the 2008-9 global financial crisis. A compelling account of how the new order of Europe was wrought from the chaotic aftermath of the Cold War, Europe since 1989 is essential reading for understanding post-Brexit Europe and the present dangers for democracy and the European Union.

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Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Europ en, Esprit d'Europe Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 A compelling history. --Bookseller Buyer's Guide Ther presents sweeping macroeconomic evidence with clarity and precision. --Pawel Marczewski, Metropole Groundbreaking . . . and beautifully written. --Die Zeit Eye-opening. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Recommended, not just the usual and interesting to see 'the West' treated as the periphery. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution [Ther's] central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation. --Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books Bound to become the standard work for Europe's transformation since 1989. --Frank B sch, H-Net This brilliant book is a masterpiece of contemporary history and far and away the best thing that's been published about the huge historical turn that began in Europe in 1989. It instantly becomes the go-to book for understanding the period, totally supplanting previous accounts. Philipp Ther makes the events of 1989, and what followed, not simply a history of Eastern Europe, but a history of Europe as a whole, with both east and west entranced, and partly blinded, by the neoliberal imperative. --Larry Wolff, New York University

Eye-opening. -- Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung Groundbreaking . . . and beautifully written. -- Die Zeit Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize Recommended, not just the usual and interesting to see 'the West' treated as the periphery. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Eye-opening. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [Ther's] central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation. --Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books The all round general essence of what is written . . . makes for more than robust reading. Not to mention, profound common sense. . . . [An] exceedingly well-researched book. --David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews Bound to become the standard work for Europe's transformation since 1989. --Frank Bosch, H-Net [Europe since 1989] . . . is well-documented. It can be recommended to general readers and students of postcommunist history in Europe. --Choice His central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation. --Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books A very sobering read. --Yuval Levin, National Review Groundbreaking . . . and beautifully written. --Die Zeit Eye-opening. --Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung

Eye-opening. -- Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung Groundbreaking . . . and beautifully written. -- Die Zeit Bound to become the standard work for Europe's transformation since 1989. --Frank B�sch, H-Net Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Europ�en, Esprit d'Europe Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Europeen, Esprit d'Europe Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize Recommended, not just the usual and interesting to see 'the West' treated as the periphery. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Eye-opening. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [Ther's] central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation. --Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books The all round general essence of what is written . . . makes for more than robust reading. Not to mention, profound common sense. . . . [An] exceedingly well-researched book. --David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews [Europe since 1989] . . . is well-documented. It can be recommended to general readers and students of postcommunist history in Europe. --Choice His central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation. --Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books A very sobering read. --Yuval Levin, National Review Groundbreaking . . . and beautifully written. --Die Zeit Eye-opening. --Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung

Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Europ en, Esprit d'Europe Ther presents sweeping macroeconomic evidence with clarity and precision. --Pawel Marczewski, Metropole Eye-opening. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A compelling history. --Bookseller Buyer's Guide Groundbreaking . . . and beautifully written. --Die Zeit Recommended, not just the usual and interesting to see 'the West' treated as the periphery. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution [Ther's] central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation. --Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books Bound to become the standard work for Europe's transformation since 1989. --Frank B sch, H-Net This brilliant book is a masterpiece of contemporary history and far and away the best thing that's been published about the huge historical turn that began in Europe in 1989. It instantly becomes the go-to book for understanding the period, totally supplanting previous accounts. Philipp Ther makes the events of 1989, and what followed, not simply a history of Eastern Europe, but a history of Europe as a whole, with both east and west entranced, and partly blinded, by the neoliberal imperative. --Larry Wolff, New York University

The all round general essence of what is written . . . makes for more than robust reading. Not to mention, profound common sense. . . . [An] exceedingly well-researched book.---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews A very sobering read.---Yuval Levin, National Review Recommended, not just the usual and interesting to see 'the West' treated as the periphery.---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Bound to become the standard work for Europe's transformation since 1989.---Frank B�sch, H-Net Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Europ�en, Esprit d'Europe Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 [Ther's] central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation.---Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015 Bound to become the standard work for Europe's transformation since 1989. --Frank B�sch, H-Net Recommended, not just the usual and interesting to see 'the West' treated as the periphery. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Eye-opening. --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [Ther's] central thesis demands serious consideration. He argues that a 'neoliberal train, ' put on track in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's United States, began 'to cross Europe in 1989.' He says he uses neoliberalism 'as a neutral, analytical term, ' and rightly distinguishes between its intellectual history and the specific social and political circumstances of its implementation. --Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books The all round general essence of what is written . . . makes for more than robust reading. Not to mention, profound common sense. . . . [An] exceedingly well-researched book. --David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews [Europe since 1989] . . . is well-documented. It can be recommended to general readers and students of postcommunist history in Europe. --Choice A very sobering read. --Yuval Levin, National Review Groundbreaking . . . and beautifully written. --Die Zeit

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Philipp Ther is professor of Central European history and director of the Institute of European History at the University of Vienna.

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