Transnational Moments of Change

Europe 1945, 1968, 1989
Herausgeber: Rainer-Horn, Gerd; Kenney, Padraic

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Produktbeschreibung

Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits from a transnational vantage point. Twelve distinguished contributors from around the globe offer a range of transnational approaches to three continent-wide moments of change. The work begins with a look at the close of World War Two, when liberation from Nazi occupation offered the opportunity for social and political experiment. Next, essays explore the late 1960s as generational change and political dissatisfaction rocked urban centers from Paris to Prague. Finally, the book turns to the fall of communism, a moment of revolutionary change that not only spread rapidly from country to country, but even affected and interacted with protest movements in Western Europe and elsewhere. Together, the essays provide both a new perspective on postwar Europe and a range of models for the historian interested in using the transnational approach.

Produktdetails

• Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780742523234
• ISBN-10: 0742523233
• Artikelnr.: 21200443

Autorenporträt

Gerd Rainer-Horn is lecturer at the University of Warwick and the author of European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930's and co-editor of Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation, 1943-1955. Padraic Kenney is associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His books include Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950 and A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 1945
Chapter 3 Recasting Democracy? Communist Parties Facing Change and
Reconstruction in Post-War Europe
Chapter 4 Window of Opportunities or trompe l'oeil? The Myth of Labor Unity
in Western Europe after 1945
Chapter 5 Liberated Zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: The
Cases of the Alto Tortonese and the Vercors
Chapter 6 The Influence of Socialist Realism in Italy During the Immediate
Postwar Period
Part 7 1968
Chapter 8 "1968" and "The Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties (c. 1958
- c. 1974)"
Chapter 9 The Working Class Dimension Of "1968"
Chapter 10 1968 East and West: Visions of Political Change and Student
Protest from Across the Iron Curtain
Chapter 11 Echoes of Provocation: "1968" and the Women's Movements in
France and Germany
Part 12 1989
Chapter 13 The Global Context of 1989
Chapter 14 The Development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: The
Role of International Contacts
Chapter 15 A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in
the 1980s Western Peace Movement
Chapter 16 Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the
Revolutions of 1989
Chapter 17 Bibliographic Essay