Broad in geographical scope, this collection explores the most important transformations and upheavals of post-1945 Europe in the light of recent scholarship.
A wide array of authors from the UK, the USA and across Europe contribute twelve chapters consider key political, cultural and economic changes of an era that needs reevalutaion and reconsideration from a historical perspective.
Cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of issues politics, economics, social and cultural aspects Themes in Modern European History since 1945 is structured around recent theoretical...
Broad in geographical scope, this collection explores the most important transformations and upheavals of post-1945 Europe in the light of recent s...
This collection explores the most important transformations and upheavals of post-1945 Europe in the light of current scholarship. Twelve chapters consider key political, cultural and economic changes of an era that needs re-evalutaion and reconsideration from a historical perspective.
This collection explores the most important transformations and upheavals of post-1945 Europe in the light of current scholarship. Twelve chapters con...
"The Heroic City" is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and 50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city s streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle. With frequent strikes and protests, young people and students on parade, North Africans arriving in the capital of the French empire, and radio and television shows broadcast live from the streets, Paris continued to be vital terrain....
"The Heroic City" is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Counter...
Toulouse is one of the most striking examples of urban modernization both in France and in all of Europe. It exemplifies the unparalleled changes that transformed France into an urban nation after World War II. In Modernizing the Provincial City, Rosemary Wakeman examines the ways in which urban landscape and architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public modernization programs designed to build "the new France." Her study is unique in treating modernization not in the conventional sense of a fixed, abstract model superimposed over defenseless provincial cities,...
Toulouse is one of the most striking examples of urban modernization both in France and in all of Europe. It exemplifies the unparalleled changes ...
The typical town springs up around a natural resource--a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor--or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns," which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren't a new thing--ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New City--but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the twentieth century. In Practicing Utopia, Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a...
The typical town springs up around a natural resource--a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor--or in proximity to a larger, already thriving ...
