{"product_id":"life-after-death-approaches-to-a-cultural-and-social-history-of-europe-during-the-1940s-and-1950s-hardback-9780521804134","title":"Life after Death; Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s (Hardback) 9780521804134","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLife after Death\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eApproaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Bessel (Edited by), Dirk Schumann (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521804134, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 May 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The volume has considerable value in bringing together some of the most innovative social and cultural historians of postwar Europe.\"   Journal of Social History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann\u003cbr\u003e 1. Post-traumatic stress disorder and World War II: can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society? Alice Förster and Birgit Beck\u003cbr\u003e 2. Between pain and silence: remembering the victims of violence in Germany after 1949 Sabine Behrenbeck\u003cbr\u003e 3. Paths of normalization after the persecution of the Jews: the Netherlands, France, and West Germany in the 1950s Ido De Haan\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trauma, memory and motherhood: Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany, 1945–9 Atina Grossman\u003cbr\u003e 5. Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945 Andrea Petö\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Going home': the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war Joanna Bourke\u003cbr\u003e 7. Desperately seeking normality: sex and marriage in the wake of war Dagmar Herzog\u003cbr\u003e 8. Family life and 'normality' in postwar British culture Pat Thane\u003cbr\u003e 9. Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in the 1950s Michael Wildt\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'Strengthened and purified through ordeal by fire': ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe Damian van Melis\u003cbr\u003e 11. The nationalism of victimhood: selective violence and national grief in western Europe, 1940–60 Pieter Lagrou\u003cbr\u003e 12. Italy after fascism: the predicament of dominant narratives Donald Sasson\u003cbr\u003e 13. The politics of post-fascist aesthetics: 1950s west and east German industrial design Paul Betts\u003cbr\u003e 14. Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of Tourism after May 8, 1945? Alon Confino.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Postwar%2020th%20century%20history,%20from%20c%201945%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW3%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW3\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265110823192,"sku":"9780521804134","price":61.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521804134i.jpg?v=1692019643","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/life-after-death-approaches-to-a-cultural-and-social-history-of-europe-during-the-1940s-and-1950s-hardback-9780521804134","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}