Three Postwar Eras in Comparison

CARL LEVY is Senior Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Social Policy and Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published widely and is the author of Gramsci and the Anarchists and has edited Socialism and the Intelligentsia (with Valerie Symes and Jane Littlewood), The Future of Europe, Italian Regionalism, and (with Alice Bloch), Refugees, Citizenship and Social Policy in Europe. - MARK ROSEMAN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on modern German history and is the author of The Past in Hiding.

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Tables List of Figures 1918-1945-1989: The Making and Unmaking of Stable Societies in Western Europe: Introduction; C.Levy PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT FOR NATIONAL STABLIZATION: 1918-1945-1989 Empires of Nations? 1918-1945-1989; C.Maier America as a European Power: Four Dimensions of the Transatlantic Relationship: 1945 to the Late 1990s; D.Ellwood The Nationalist Challenge to Stability in Eastern and Central Europe: 1918-1945-1989; C.Seton-Watson PART II: THE DOMESTIC PROCESSES OF STABILIZATION A: The Economics of Stabilization; 1918-1945-1989 Public Debt as a Postwar Problem: The German Experience after 1918 in Comparative Perspective; N.Ferguson Stabilizing Italy: 1945-1989; P.Furlong B: Creating the Consumer Society: 1920s-1950s Visions of Prosperity: Consumerism and Popular Culture in Italy from the 1920s to the 1950s; S.Gundle Rationalizing Family Life-Stabilizing German Society: The 'Golden Twenties' and the 'Economic Miracle' in Comparison; C.Sachse C: Between Post-Materialism and the End of the Cold War 1968-1989: Social Movements in Italy Reconsidered; R.Lumley The Youth Question: Generations, Stability and Social Change in France since 1945; C.Warne PART III: POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS ACROSS THE THREE POST-WAR ERAS France's German Question, 1918-1945-1989; D.Johnson Defeat and Stability: 1918, 1945 and 1989 in Germany; M.Roseman The Roots of the Italian Political Crisis: A View from History, 1918- 1945, 1989 ...and After; P.Pombeni Index