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(Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968
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(Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968

Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State

(Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968

Senses of Belonging Below, Beyond and Within the Nation-State

Edited ByStefan Couperus, Harm Kaal
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 26 October 2016
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315532738
Pages 294 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315532738
SubjectsHumanities
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Couperus, S. (Ed.), Kaal, H. (Ed.). (2017). (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315532738

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
Introduction: (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918–68
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part |2 pages
PART I Urban Communities
chapter 2|26 pages
Languages of Place and Belonging: Competing Conceptions of “Community” in Mid-Twentieth-Century Bermondsey, London
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chapter 3|20 pages
Rethinking the “Blueprint for Living Together”: Community Planning and Sociology in Coventry, 1940–55
BySTEFAN COUPERUS
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chapter 4|20 pages
“Washing Away the Dirt of the War Years”: History, Politics and the Reconstruction of Urban Communities in Post–World War II Helsinki
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part |2 pages
PART II Rural and Regional Communities
chapter 5|21 pages
A Counter-Community between Regionalism and Nationalism: State-Building and the Vision of Modernisation in Interwar Romania FLORIAN KÜHRER-WIELACH
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chapter 6|22 pages
Community Building and Expert Involvement with Reclaimed Lands in the Netherlands, 1930s–50s
ByLIESBETH VAN DE GRIFT
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chapter 7|21 pages
The Turn to Local Communities in Early Post-War West Germany: The Case of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, 1945–65
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part |2 pages
PART III Transnational Communities
chapter 8|22 pages
Restoring the Republic of Letters: Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig and Transnational Community Building in Europe, 1914–34
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chapter 9|21 pages
A Vatican Conspiracy? Internationalism, Catholicism and the Quest for European Unification, 1945–50
ByMAARTEN VAN DEN BOS
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chapter 10|19 pages
Piercing the Iron Curtain? Competing Visions of Transnational Expert Community and the Question of International Order after 1945
ByPHILLIP WAGNER
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part |2 pages
PART IV Nation, Class and Religion
chapter 11|21 pages
Reconstructing Post-War Political Communities: Class, Religion and Political Identity-Formation in the Netherlands, 1945–68
ByHARM KAAL
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chapter 12|22 pages
Dialogues on Religion in a “Socialist Society” under Construction: Marxist Social Scientists and Czech Protestants, 1940s–60s
ByONDŘEJ MATĚJKA
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chapter 13|15 pages
Languages of “National Community” and Its “Others” in Europe, 1918–68
BySTEFAN BERGER
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