Moment of Liberation in Western Europe - Power Struggles and Rebellions, 1943-1948

An innovative perspective on the visions at stake for post-liberation Western Europe, this work highlights initiatives arising from resistance activists. The moment of liberation is seen as a crucial moment, when a new society became a possibility.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Prologue


• 1: Rebellion in the South: Liberation in France


• 2: The Wind from the North: Liberation in Italy


• 3: Who is the Government? We are the Government!': Liberation at the Point of Production


• 4: Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pense: The Politics of the Press in Post-Liberation Europe


• 5: Last Stands: Echoes of the Maquis


• Conclusion


• Bibliographic Essay

About the author

Gerd-Rainer Horn is Professor of History at Sciences Po, Paris, France, since 2013. He has previously taught at Western Oregon University, the University of Huddersfield, and the University of Warwick. His area of research expertise is the twentieth century history of transnational social movements in continental Western Europe.

Summary

An innovative perspective on the visions at stake for post-liberation Western Europe, this work highlights initiatives arising from resistance activists. The moment of liberation is seen as a crucial moment, when a new society became a possibility.

Additional text

Horn has presented an impressive book in which he merges the many individual examples of liberation committees, freewheeling newspapers, and imaginative actions by various levels of official administrations and factory militants into a convincing overall picture. In doing so, he makes use of a lively, graphic, vivid language which captures the mood of this promising conjuncture - with a tendency to catchy formulations.

Product details

• Authors: Gerd-Rainer Horn, Gerd-Rainer (Professor of History Horn, Horn Gerd-Rainer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2020
• EAN: 9780199587919
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958791-9
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Western Europe, c 1940 to c 1949, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Western Continental Europe, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions