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Focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to understand how European societies experienced and reacted to the Cold War.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1: From War to Post-War: Security Lost and Found
- 2: Identifying the Protests and the Protest Makers
- 3: Political Experiences and the Security of Community
- 4: Organising the Extra-Parliamentary Politics of Security
- 5: 'Peace', the Nation, and International Relations
- 6: Demonstrating Security
- 7: Openings: Politics, culture, and activism in the 1960s
- 8: Redefining Solidarity
- Epilogue: Redefining Experiences
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Holger Nehring completed his D.Phil. at University College, Oxford, before taking up a research fellowship at St. Peter's College, Oxford. He has been teaching at the University of Sheffield since March 2006. His interests lie in the transnational history of social movements and activism, peace history, the history of violence, and the history of the Cold War. He is one of the co-founders of the Centre for Peace History at Sheffield, one of the very few institutions in the world that specialises in research on and teaching of the historical contingencies of peace making and peace keeping.
Summary
Focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to understand how European societies experienced and reacted to the Cold War.
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Part of the OAPEN-UK project
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a ground-breaking study on the transnational history of two peace movements in the early phase of the Cold War.
