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The Postwar Challenge
Cultural, Social, and Political Change in Western Europe, 1945-58
Edited by Dominik Geppert
414 pages
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5 tables
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216x138mm
978-0-19-926665-4
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Hardback
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18 December 2003
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- Includes contributions from five different countries
- Combines the national historiographies of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the USA
- Examines the debates about the beginnings of European integration
This volume charts the cultural, political, and social changes which took place in Western Europe during the first thirteen years after the Second World War. It brings together seventeen essays by experts from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the USA. Western European nations faced many challenges during this period: the psychological and material aftermath of the war; the need for economic and social restructuring; and the impact of the Cold War on domestic political, social, and cultural developments. To explore the responses to these challenges, transnational and national perspectives need to be combined. Thus the first two sections compare key
developmental processes in Britain, France, West Germany, and Italy. They ask how these nations came to terms with their most recent history, and how they addressed the problems of economic and social restructuring. A solely comparative approach along national lines, however, does not do justice to the historical reality of these societies. After all, they were not hermetically sealed national units, but connected by individual and institutional contacts and the transfer of goods and ideas. The third section examines the area in which these links had become most obvious after 1945-the debates about the beginnings of European integration. The fourth section focuses on the influence of the USA on the social and cultural re-organization of Western Europe. It abandons national subdivisions
altogether and examines some agents of American influence in Western Europe.Readership: Contemporary historians, political scientists, students interested in the history of memory, and cultural history in general
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Edited by Dominik Geppert, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute London Contributors:
Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of Europe, Columbia University, New York.
Gérard Bossuat, Professor of Contemporary History, Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
Élisabeth du Réau, Professor at the Université de Sorbonne, Paris.
Filippo Focardi, Dipartimento di Studi sullo Stato, University of Florence.
Norbert Frei, Professor of Modern History, Ruhr University, Bochum.
Dominik Geppert, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute London.
David Gilgen, Junior Lecturer, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Bielefeld University.
José Harris, Professor of Modern History, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Nicholas Hewitt, Project Co-ordinator of the UK National Inventory of War Memorials, Imperial War Museum, London.
Michael Hochgeschwender, Department of History, University of Tübingen.
Pieter Lagrou, Research Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
Wilfried Loth, Professor of History, University of Essen.
N. Piers Ludlow, International History, London School of Economics.
Leopoldo Nuti, Professor of the History of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science in Rome (Università Roma Tre).
Luciano Segreto, Professor of
Economic History and International Relations at the University of Florence.
Carlo Spagnolo, University of Bari.
Toby Thacker, University of Cardiff.
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"This is a useful set of articles, generally well-disciplined, on a post-war reconstructionthat worked." - History
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1: Dominik Geppert: Introduction
I: Coming to Terms with the Past
2: Norbert Frei: Coping with the Burdens of the Past: German Politics and Society in the 1950s
3: Filippo Focardi: Reshaping the Past: Collective Memory and the Second World War in Italy, 1945-55
4: Pieter Lagrou: Beyond Memory and Commemoration: Coming to Terms with War and Occupation in France after 1945
5: Nick Hewitt: A Sceptical Generation? War Memorials and the Collective Memory of the Second World War in Britain, 1945-2000
II: Blueprints for Change
6: David Gilgen: Socialism and Democracy: The Debate about a New Social and Econonic Order in West Germany after the Second World War
7: Luciano Segreto: The Importance of the Foreign Constraint: Debates about a New Social and Economic Order in Italy, 1945-55
8: Gérard Bossuat: The Modernization of France: A New Economic and Social Order afer the Second World War?
9: José Harris: 'War Socialism' and its Aftermath: Debates about a New Social and Economic Order In Britain, 1945-50
III: Beyond the Nation-State
10: Wilfried Loth: From the 'Third Force' to the Common Market: Discussions about Europe and the Future of the Nation-State in West Germany, 1945-57
11: Leopoldo Nuti: An Instrumental and Atlantic Europe: Discussions about Foreign Policy and the Future of the Nation-State in Italy, 1945-55
12: Élisabeth du Réau: Integration or Co-operation? Europe and the Future of the Nation-State in France, 1945-55
13: N. Piers Ludlow: Paying the Price of Victory? Postwar Britain and the Ideas of National Independence
IV: The Transatlantic Dimension
14: Carlo Spagnolo: Reinterpreting the Marshall Plan: The Impact of the European Recovery Programme in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy (1947-52)
15: Volker R. Berghahn: A Public-Private Partnership? The Cultural Policies of the US Administrations in Western Europe and the Role of the Big American Foundations
16: Michael Hochgeschwender: A Battle of Ideas: The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) in Britain, Italy, France, and West Germany
17: Dominik Geppert: 'Proclaim Liberty Throughout all the Land': Berlin and the Symbolic Language of the Cold War
18: Toby Thacker: 'Playing Beethoven like an Indian': American Music and Reorientation in Germany, 1945-55
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