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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 January 2013
      05 May 2003
      ISBN:
      9781139052344
      9780521804134
      9780521009225
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139052344
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 376 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.506kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale. It views the relationship of the violence of the 1940s to the apparent 'normality' and stability of the 1950s as a key to understanding the history of post-war Europe. While the history of post-war Germany naturally looms large in this collection, the essays deal with countries across Western and Central Europe, offer comparative perspectives on their subjects, and draw upon a wide range of primary and secondary source material.

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    "The volume has considerable value in bringing together some of the most innovative social and cultural historians of postwar Europe." Journal of Social History

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