Overview

This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas, the life worlds and ideologies that emerge behind the use of the concept of community. It explores a wide variety of actors, ranging from the tenants of London council estates to transnational cultural elites.

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Author:   Stefan Couperus (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) ,  Harm Kaal (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   37
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138692282

ISBN 10:   113869228
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   08 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction: (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918–68 [Stefan Couperus and Harm Kaal] Part I: Urban Communities 2. Languages of Place and Belonging: Competing Conceptions of ""Community"" in Mid-Twentieth-Century Bermondsey, London [Jon Lawrence] 3. Rethinking the ""Blueprint for Living Together"": Community Planning and Sociology in Coventry, 1940–55 [Stefan Couperus] 4. ‘Washing Away the Dirt of the War Years’: History, Politics and the Reconstruction of Urban Communities in Post–World War II Helsinki [Tanja Vahtikari] Part II: Rural and Regional Communities 5. A Counter-Community Between Regionalism and Nationalism: State-Building and the Vision of Modernisation in Interwar Romania [Florian Kührer-Wielach] 6. Community Building and Expert Involvement with Reclaimed Lands in the Netherlands, 1930s–50s [Liesbeth van de Grift] 7. The Turn to Local Communities in Early Post-War West Germany: The Case of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, 1945–65 [Jeremy DeWaal] Part III: Transnational Communities 8. Restoring the Republic of Letters: Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig and Transnational Community-Building in Europe, 1914–34 [Marleen Rensen] 9. A Vatican Conspiracy?: Internationalism, Catholicism and the Quest for European Unification, 1945–50 [Maarten van den Bos] 10. Piercing the Iron Curtain?: Competing Visions of Transnational Expert Community and the Question of International Order after 1945 [Phillip Wagner] Part IV: Nation, Class, and Religion 11. Reconstructing Post-War Political Communities: Class, Religion and Political Identity-Formation in the Netherlands, 1945–68 [Harm Kaal] 12. Dialogues on Religion in a ""Socialist Society"" under Construction: Marxist Social Scientists and Czech Protestants, 1940s–60s [Ondrej Matejka] 13. Languages of ""National Community"" and Its ""Others"" in Europe, 1918–68 [Stefan Berger]"

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Stefan Couperus is a senior lecturer at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Harm Kaal is an assistant professor of political history at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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