Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History

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The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past.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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Illustrations......Page 10 List of Abbreviations......Page 12 List of Contributors......Page 18 Editor’s Introduction: Postwar Europe as History......Page 30 PART I: WHAT IS POSTWAR EUROPE?......Page 64 1. Corporatism and the Social Democratic Moment: The Postwar Settlement, 1945–1973......Page 66 2. Interwar, War, Postwar: Was There a Zero Hour in 1945?......Page 89 3. East, West, and the Return of ‘Central’: Borders Drawn and Redrawn......Page 108 4. Spectres of Europe: Europe’s Past, Present, and Future......Page 127 5. Europe and Its Others: Is There a European Identity?......Page 149 PART II: PEOPLE......Page 168 6. Ethnic Cleansing......Page 170 7. Responding to ‘Order without Life’? Living under Communism......Page 192 8. The Spectre of Americanization: Western Europe in the American Century......Page 211 9. Immigration and Asylum: Challenges to European Identities and Citizenship......Page 230 10. Gendering Europe, Europeanizing Gender: The Politics of Difference in a Global Era......Page 249 11. 1968: Europe in Technicolour......Page 272 PART III: BLOCS, PARTIES, POLITICAL POWER......Page 292 12. Making Postwar Communism......Page 294 13. Europe’s Cold War......Page 312 14. The Western European Welfare State beyond Christian and Social Democratic Ideology......Page 328 15. The Truth about Friendship Treaties: Behind the Iron Curtain......Page 348 PART IV: RE-CONSTRUCTION: STARTING A FRESH OR REBUILDING THE OLD......Page 366 16. A Continent Bristling with Arms: Continuity and Change in Western European Security Policies after the Second World War......Page 368 17. ‘Les trente glorieuses’: From the Marshall Plan to the Oil Crisis......Page 385 18. European Integration: The Rescue of the Nation State?......Page 408 19. A Restructured Economy: From the Oil Crisis to the Financial Crisis, 1973–2009......Page 435 20. Veblen Redivivus: Leisure and Excess in Europe......Page 452 PART V: FEAR......Page 472 21. ‘Gentlemen, You are Mad!’: Mutual Assured Destruction and Cold War Culture......Page 474 22. What Was National Stalinism?......Page 491 23. Colonial Fantasies Shattered......Page 509 24. After the Fear Was Over? What Came after Dictatorships in Spain, Greece, and Portugal......Page 531 25. What Comes after Communism?......Page 555 26. Brothers, Strangers, and Enemies: Ethno-Nationalism and the Demise of Communist Yugoslavia......Page 575 PART VI: CULTURE AND HISTORY......Page 590 27. The Countryside: Towards a Theme Park?......Page 592 28. Heritage and the Reconceptualization of the Postwar European City......Page 611 29. The Postcolonial Condition......Page 629 30. Postwar Art, Architecture, and Design......Page 642 31. Science and Technology in Postwar Europe......Page 659 32. Images of Europe, European Images: Postwar European Cinema and Television Culture......Page 678 PART VII: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE WAR......Page 698 33. Intellectuals and Nazism......Page 700 34. The Great Patriotic War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Collective Memory......Page 721 35. Memory Wars in the ‘New Europe’......Page 743 A......Page 762 B......Page 763 C......Page 765 D......Page 768 E......Page 769 F......Page 772 G......Page 774 H......Page 776 I......Page 778 K......Page 779 L......Page 780 M......Page 781 N......Page 783 O......Page 784 P......Page 785 R......Page 786 S......Page 788 T......Page 791 U......Page 792 W......Page 794 Z......Page 796