European identity and the Second World War
By: edited by Menno Spiering and Michael Wintle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780230273238
Subjects: Human rights; Influence; European cooperation; Civilization; Group identity; World War, 1939-1945; War and society; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); European National characteristics; History
Description: "The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on the Contributors; title: Introduction; title: Ideals, Identity and War: the Idea of Europe, 1939-70; M.Wintle; title: PART I: WORLD WAR II, EUROPE AND HUMAN RIGHTS; title: Human Rights and European Identity since World War II: Vergangenheitsbewa;ltigung through Law; H.Porsdam; title: Before Integration: Human Rights and Post-war Europe; H.Schulz-Forberg; title: From War Talk to Rights Talk: Exile Politics, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars ; J.Winter; title: PART II: REFLECTIONS: NARRATIVES OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND WORLD WAR II; title: Myth and History in European Post-War History Writing; J.Ifversen; title: From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945-5; W.Webster; title: The Nordic Way Out: Europe in Danish Literature after the Second World War ; H.van der Liet; title: 'Europe is the Country of the Spirit': Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944-47; M.van Montfrans; title: PART III: VISIONS: PLANS FOR A NEW EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II; title: The Ventotene Manifesto: the Crisis of the Nation State and the Political Identity of Europe; M.D'Auria; title: Max Kohnstamm's New Europe; A.van Heerikhuizen; title: Atoms for Europe; M.Spiering; title: Before Self-Reflexivity: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Discourses of European Integration; W.Schmale; title: PART IV: SHOAH, WAR AND EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION; title: Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: the Case of Jorge Semprún; K-M.Simonsen; title: Goodbye to All That? Jewish Views of Europe after 1945; I.Zwiep; title: Language out of Darkness: George Steiner Speaking the Unspeakable; R.G.Soeiro; title: Index.