Kaal / Couperus (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968

Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-315-53272-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

This volume addresses the discursive mechanisms behind the attempts to (re)construct communities at urban, local and transnational levels, which were manifest against the background of class antagonism, political polarization and social disruption in the era between the end of the Great War and the cultural revolution of the 1960s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaal, Harm

Couperus, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

[Stefan Couperus and Harm Kaal]

Part 1: Scientific Conceptions of Community

2. Languages of Place and Belonging in Mid-20th-Century England: Anthropological versus Vernacular Understandings of Communal Life

[Jon Lawrence]

3. Community Membership, National Identity and Discourse: The Role of Ethnologists in the Definition of Deutschtum in Western and Central Europe (1914-1945)

[Fabien Théofilakis]

4. Conceptions of Class: The Impact of Political and Sociological Research on the Construction of Political Communities in the Netherlands

[Harm Kaal]

5. Inner Colonisation and the Reordering of Rural Communities in Europe

[Liesbeth van de Grift]

Part 2: The Politics of Post-War National Community

6. Dutch McCarthyism?: Anticommunism as a Tool for the Construction of a Democratic National Community (1920-1960)

[Wim de Jong]

7. Nation and Democracy After the Catastrophe: Conceptions of Political Community and Discourses on the Past in Early Post-War Hungary

[Máté Zombory]

8. Christian Constructors of a Socialist Community: The Case of the Czech Protestant Milieu, 1940s-1960s

[Ondrej Matejka]

Part 3: Localist and Regionalist Conceptions of Community

9. Beyond Nation and Region: Offers of Belonging in Interwar Transylvania

[Florian Kührer-Wielach]

10. The Turn to Local Communities in Early Post-War West Germany, 1945-1965

[Jeremy DeWaal

11. History, Politics and the Reconstruction of Urban Communities in Post-Second World War Helsinki

[Tanja Vatikari]

Part 4: Trans-Boundary Communities

12. Revitalizing the Republic of Letters in Interwar Europe

[Marleen Rensen]

13. Competing Visions of a Transboundary Expert Community: The International Federation for Housing and Town Planning and Post-War International Order

[Philip Wagner]

14. A Vatican Conspiracy?: Religion, Reconciliation and the Unification of Europe, 1944-1950

[Maarten van den Bos]

15. Languages of Community in Europe

[Stefan Berger]

Über Autor(innen)

Harm Kaal is an Assistant Professor of Political History at Radboud University Nijmegen.

Stefan Couperus is a postdoctoral researcher in (modern) political history at Utrecht University.