The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the
recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions
of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of
political science and contemporary history, recent research
approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are
represented in the thirty-five chapters of this book. As well as
diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history,
The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters
which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage,
art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage,
postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the
history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines
such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of
Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects
as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity,
southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the
bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization,
welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession,
and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the essays in this Handbook
offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that
offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will
find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects,
each written by an acknowledged expert, as well as stimulating and
novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and
adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one
substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians
are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.
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