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Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits from a transnational vantage point. Twelve distinguished contributors from around the globe offer a range of transnational approaches to three continent-wide moments of change. The work begins with a look at the close of World War Two, when liberation from Nazi occupation offered the opportunity for social and political experiment. Next, essays explore the late 1960s as generational change and political dissatisfaction rocked urban centers from Paris to Prague. Finally, the book turns to the fall of communism, a moment of revolutionary change that not only spread rapidly from country to country, but even affected and interacted with protest movements in Western Europe and elsewhere. Together, the essays provide both a new perspective on postwar Europe and a range of models for the historian interested in using the transnational approach.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 1945
Chapter 3 Recasting Democracy? Communist Parties Facing Change and Reconstruction in Post-War Europe
Chapter 4 Window of Opportunities or trompe l'oeil? The Myth of Labor Unity in Western Europe after 1945
Chapter 5 Liberated Zones in Northern Italy and Southeastern France: The Cases of the Alto Tortonese and the Vercors
Chapter 6 The Influence of Socialist Realism in Italy During the Immediate Postwar Period
Part 7 1968
Chapter 8 "1968" and "The Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties (c. 1958 - c. 1974)"
Chapter 9 The Working Class Dimension Of "1968"
Chapter 10 1968 East and West: Visions of Political Change and Student Protest from Across the Iron Curtain
Chapter 11 Echoes of Provocation: "1968" and the Women's Movements in France and Germany
Part 12 1989
Chapter 13 The Global Context of 1989
Chapter 14 The Development of a Green Opposition in Czechoslovakia: The Role of International Contacts
Chapter 15 A Transcontinental Movement of Citizens? Strategic Debates in the 1980s Western Peace Movement
Chapter 16 Opposition Networks and Transnational Diffusion in the Revolutions of 1989
Chapter 17 Bibliographic Essay

Product details

Published Jan 29 2004
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 264
ISBN 9780742523234
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Gerd Rainer-Horn

Anthology Editor

Padraic Kenney

Contributor

Aldo Agosti

Contributor

Anna Balzarro

Contributor

Paulina Bren

Contributor

Patrick Burke

Contributor

Padraic Kenney

Contributor

Arthur Marwick

Contributor

Patrick Pasture

Contributor

Kristina Schulz

Contributor

Jarle Simensen

Contributor

Miroslav Vanek

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