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Until recently, historians of World War II have mainly studied
Europe during liberation--from the final years of the conflict to
the start of the Cold War--from the perspective of nations, of
political units. A whole historiography has been built on examining
how national elites worked to restore institutions, positions of
power, and infrastructure in order to reestablish central authority
within the postwar territory assigned to each state. But, as this
volume shows, the events of liberation played out not only in
politics, but also in society at local, regional, national, and
international levels. In thirteen incisive essays, the contributors
to "Seeking Peace in the Wake of War" examine European social
life--instances of exchange, the actors involved, and their
motivations--during these years of state emergence and transition.
They postulate that the issue of how peace was conceived of and
constructed in the postwar period should be approached as an
episode of reconfiguration stretching far beyond politics, in which
new arrangements were reached within societies, states, and the
international order.
This collection of essays brings together the work of a new
generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true
history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a 'Southern
problem' viewed through a Northern prism. These scholars suggest
that the South was not a 'backward' region, but a combination of
regions in which different social and economic patterns had evolved
in response to the prevailing conditions within the Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to
examine not only the concrete history of the South, but also the
discourses and images in which it has been framed. It is the first
publication in English devoted to the new history of Southern
Italy, and brings together many of the leading figures in the
revisionist movement, as well as some of their critics.
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