The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 November 2014
- ISBN 9780198729174
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages796 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 1362 g
- Language English 0
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Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.
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The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the thirty-five chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy.
The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by an acknowledged expert, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.
a fascinating and well-informed read ... a useful resource for years to come.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Editor's Introduction: Postwar Europe as History
PART I: WHAT IS POSTWAR EUROPE?
Corporatism and the Social Democratic Moment: The Postwar Settlement, 1945-1973
Interwar, War, Postwar: Was There a Zero Hour in 1945?
East, West, and the Return of 'Central': Borders Drawn and Redrawn
Spectres of Europe: Europes Past, Present and Future
Europe and Its Others. Is There a European Identity?
PART II: PEOPLE
Ethnic Cleansing
Responding to 'Order Without Life'? Living under Communism
The Spectre of Americanization: Western Europe in the American Century
Immigration and Asylum: Challenges to European Identities and Citizenship
Gendering Europe, Europeanizing Gender: The Politics of Difference in a Global Era
1968: Europe in Technicolour
PART III: BLOCS, PARTIES, POLITICAL POWER
Making Postwar Communism
Europe's Cold War
The Western European Welfare State beyond Christian and Social Democratic Ideology
The Truth about Friendship Treaties: Behind the Iron Curtain
PART IV: RE-CONSTRUCTION: STARTING AFRESH OR REBUILDING THE OLD?
A Continent Bristling with Arms: Continuity and Change in Western European Security Policies after the Second World War
'Les trente glorieuses': From the Marshall Plan to the Oil Crises
European Integration: The Rescue of the Nation State?
A Restructured Economy: From the Oil Crisis to the Financial Crisis, 1973-2009
Veblen Redivivus: Leisure and Excess in Europe
PART V: FEAR
'Gentlemen, You are Mad!' Mutual Assured Destruction and Cold War Culture
What Was National Stalinism?
Colonial Fantasies Shattered
After the Fear Was Over? What Came after Dictatorships in Spain, Greece, and Portugal
What Comes after Communism?
Brothers, Strangers and Enemies: Ethno-nationalism and the Demise of Communist Yugoslavia
PART VI: CULTURE AND HISTORY
The Countryside: Toward a Theme Park?
Heritage and the Reconceptualization of the Postwar European City
The Postcolonial Condition
Postwar Art, Architecture, and Design
Science and Technology in Postwar Europe
Images of Europe - European Images: Postwar European Cinema and Television Culture
PART VII: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE WAR
Intellectuals and Nazism
The Great Patriotic War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Collective Memory
Memory Wars in the 'New Europe'
Index
