Tag: Postwar

Free Download Anaïs Fléchet, "Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries "
English | ISBN: 1800738943 | 2023 | 321 pages | PDF | 836 KB
From the Napoleonic Wars to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, via the great world conflicts of the 20th century, Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of ‘postwar transitions’ in the field of music and to demonstrate the influence that musicians, composers, critics, institutions, and publics have had on the period that follows conflict. Leading historians, political scientists, psychologists and musicologists explore the roles of music and culture in demobilization, reconstruction, memory, reconciliation, revenge, and nationalist backlash. Moving beyond the popular conception of music as an agent of peace, this study reveals music’s more complex and ambivalent role in the process of transition from war to peace.

Free Download Curtis Anderson Gayle, "Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia "
English | ISBN: 0415860776 | 2013 | 208 pages | EPUB | 663 KB
This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in education and labor activism, history-writing became a means to greater voice within the turbulent transition.

Free Download Maria Fritsche, "Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity "
English | ISBN: 0857459457 | 2013 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a disrupted society. Through detailed analysis of the stylistic patterns, narratives and major themes of four popular genres of the time, costume film, Heimatfilm, tourist film and comedy, the book explains how popular cinema helped to shape national identity, smoothed conflicted gender relations and relieved the Austrians from the burden of the Nazi past through celebrating the harmonious, charming, musical Austrian man.

Free Download Nicole C. Rudolph, "At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort "
English | ISBN: 1782385878 | 2015 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors ― state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers ― arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects’, planners’, and residents’ understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the "right to comfort" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness.

Free Download Thomas J. Sugrue, "Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1479828823, 1479832375 | PDF | pages: 224 | 1.3 mb
Traces decades of troubled attempts to find private answers to public urban problems

Free Download Tomasz Pudlocki, "Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918-1923 "
English | ISBN: 1032027487 | 2021 | 472 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book presents a multi-layered analysis of the situation in Central Europe after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new geopolitics emerging from the Versailles order, and at the same time ongoing fights for borders, considerable war damage, social and economic problems and replacement of administrative staff as well as leaders, all contributed to the fact that unlike Western Europe, Central Europe faced challenges and dilemmas on an unprecedented scale. The editors of this book have invited authors from over a dozen academic institutions to answer the question of to what extent the solutions applied in the Habsburg Monarchy were still practiced in the newly created nation states, and to what extent these new political organisms went their own ways. It offers a closer look at Central Europe with its multiple problems typical of that region after 1918 (organizing the post-imperial space, a new political discourse and attempts to create new national memories, the role of national minorities, solving social problems, and verbal and physical violence expressed in public space). Particular chapters concern post-1918 Central Europe on the local, state and international levels, providing a comprehensive view of this sub-region between 1918 and 1923.

Free Download Jim Tomlinson, "Politics of Decline, The: Understanding Postwar Britain"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0582423686, 0582423694 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.6 mb
The key aim of this new book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in such ways as to advance particular political causes.

Free Download John Chartres – Avro Shackleton (Postwar Military Aircraft 3)
Ian Allan | 1985 | ISBN: 0711015139 | English | 120 pages | PDF | 116.69 MB
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Free Download Scott O’Bryan, "The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan"
English | 2009 | pages: 282 | ISBN: 0824832825 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O’Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese "growth performance" as "economic miracle" came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of the material changes that took place in Japan during the second half of the twentieth century we must also add perspectives that account for growth as a new idea around the world, one that emerged alongside rapid economic expansion in postwar Japan and underwrote the modes by which it was imagined, forecast, pursued, and regulated. In an accessible, lively style, O’Bryan traces the history of growth as an object of social scientific knowledge and as a new analytical paradigm that came to govern the terms by which Japanese understood their national purposes and imagined a newly materialist vision of social and individual prosperity.

Free Download Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American by Rachel Gordan
English | March 8, 2024 | ISBN: 0197694322, 0197694330 | True EPUB | 310 pages | 1 MB
The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered the war, it would not be to save the Jews. By the end of the decade, antisemitism was in decline and Jews were moving toward general acceptance in American society.