The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture

The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781443826006
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Book Synopsis The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture by : Heiko Feldner

Download or read book The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture written by Heiko Feldner and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays explores the social, political and cultural legacies of a decade which has, until relatively recently, received scant scholarly attention. Sandwiched uncomfortably between the traumatic events of the Second World War and the dramatic changes of the 1960s, the 1950s appeared as seemingly transitional years, while they were in fact an astonishingly fecund period of reassessment and experimentation when traditional models were re-evaluated and new models were road-tested, to be either developed or rejected. An important intervention in the dynamic scholarly re-examination of the 1950s, this volume analyzes these years in relation to three broadly defined areas: historiography, politics and society, and culture. What emerges from all three parts of the volume is a vision of the 1950s as a decade which was to have a profound impact on post-war European identities in two key respects: as a time of accelerated European intellectual exchange and as a time of fertile receptivity to the ‘new’, variously formulated and contested across and within national borders. Written by experts in the field, the contributions to this volume represent some of the most exciting work on the 1950s currently being undertaken in Europe and the US. They combine high intellectual standards with accessibility and will appeal to academics, students and the general reader alike.


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