The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the thirty-five chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe.Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural mcultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by an acknowledged expert, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent publications include Histories of the Holocaust (2010) and (as editor) The Historiography of Genocide (2008). nclude Histories of the Holocaust (2010) and (as editor) The Historiography of Genocide (2008).

Contributors:
G.J. Ashworth, University of Groningen
Ivan T. Berend, University of California Los Angeles
Luiza Bialasiewicz, Royal Holloway, University of London
Robert Bideleux, Swansea University
Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen
Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia
Stephen Castles, University of Sydney and University of Oxford
Hugh D. Clout, University College London
Nicholas Crafts, University of Warwick
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
Martin Evans, University of Portsmouth
Philipp Gassert, University of Augsburg
Brian Graham, University of Ulster
Helen Graham, Royal Holloway University of London
Ido de Haan, Utrecht University
Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Academy of Finland
Andrew Jamison, Aalborg University
Martin Klimke, University of Heidelberg
Catherine Lee, London Metropolitan University
Uli Linke, Rochester Institute of Technology
Roger Markwick, University of Newcastle, Australia
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
Stefan Muthesius, formerly University of East Anglia
Leopoldo Nuti, University of Roma Tre
Richard Overy, University of Exeter
Luisa Passerini, University of Turin
Mark Pittaway, formerly the Open University
Alejandro Quiroga, Newcastle University
Douglas Selvage, Office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records, Berlin
Michael Shafir, Babes-Bolyai University
P.D. Smith, independent researcher and writer
Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London
Philipp Ther, University of Vienna
Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland
Gianni Toniolo, Duke University (North Carolina) and Centre for Economic Policy Research (London)
Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University
Robert J.C. Young, New York University