Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and iscurrently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York.  She has published widely on the historical relationships between the discourse on Europe and the discourses on love, gender and generation, and on memory and subjectivity. She was coeditor of Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books 2007).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLuisa PasseriniPART I: HISTORICIZING LOVE: POINTS DE REPÈRE/ POINTS OF REFERENCE Chapter 1. Love and Religion: Comparative CommentsJack GoodyChapter 2. The Rule of Love: The History of Western Romantic Love in Comparative PerspectiveWilliam M. ReddyChapter 3. Love of State – Affection for Authority: Politics of Mass Participation in Twentieth Century European ContextsAlf LüdtkeChapter 4. Overseas Europeans: Whiteness and the Impossible Colonial Romance in Interwar ItalyLiliana EllenaChapter 5. 'Window to Europe': Social and Cinematic Phantasms of the Post-Soviet SubjectAlmira OusmanovaPART II: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LOVES Chapter 6. Love in the Time of Revolution: The Polish Poets of Café ZiemiańskaMarci ShoreChapter 7. Love, Marriage and Divorce: American and European Reactions to the Abdication of Edward VIIIAlexis SchwarzenbachChapter 8. 'Dear Adolf!': Locating Love in Nazi GermanyAlexander C.T. GeppertChapter 9. Love, Again: Crisis and the Search for Consolation. The 'Revista de Occidente' and the Creation of a Culture, 1923-1936Alison SinclairChapter 10. Political Readings of Don Juan and Romantic Love in Spain from the 1920s to the 1940sJo LabanyiPART III: EUROPEAN BORDERS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN LOVE RELATIONS Chapter 11. Between Europe and the Atlantic: The Melancholy Paths of Lusotropicalism MargaridaCalafate RibeiroChapter 12. The 'Volkskörper' in Fear: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Weimar RepublicSandra MassChapter 13. Anica Savić Rebac, Olga Freidenberg, Edith Stein: Love in the Time of WarSvetlana SlapšakChapter 14. Secular Couplings: An Intergenerational Affair with IslamRuth MasNotes on ContributorsIndex

"This is a wonderful collection of richly textured, suggestive, and often meticulous essays that interrogate the inter-twined histories of love and European identity. Imaginative readings of diverse archives that go deep into Europe's pasts and extend sideways to her colonies and margins will make this volume indispensable to all contemporary debates on the 'meanings of Europe'. It will also speak to readers far beyond the geographical confines of the continent."  ·  Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and SouthAsian Studies