Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History, 2nd Edition

Michael D. Richards, Samford Professor of History at Sweet Briar College, retired from the college in 2004 after thirty-eight years of teaching. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Tulsa and a Ph.D. from Duke University. A Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in the Netherlands, Dr. Richards also was an NEH Fellow at UCLA. The author of Revolutions in World History (2003), he has published several book chapters and articles and reviews in scholarly journals, periodicals, and reference works. He also has written for the History News Service. Dr. Richards currently is Policy Coordinator and Vice President of Population-Environment Balance, a national nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C.

Paul R. Waibel is professor of history at Belhaven College. He is the author of Politics of Accommodation (1983), Quiknotes: Christian History (2000), and numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journal, periodicals, reference works, and anthologies. Professor Waibel holds degrees in history from Lynchburg College, Virginia Tech. and West Virginia University. He was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar at the University Bonn, Germany, and an NEH Fellow at UC Berkeley.