Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study

PENELOPE MORRISis Lecturer in Italian, University of Glasgow, UK.

• Introduction; P. Morris 'What' as Ideal and 'Who' as Real: Portrait of Wives and Mothers in Italian Postwar Domestic Manuals, Fiction, and Film; R. West Marriage, Motherhood, and the Italian Film Stars of the 1950s; R. Buckley From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Cinema of the Late 1940s and 1950s; M. P. Wood Signorina Buonasera - Images of Women in Early Italian Television; S. Gundle City of Women: Sex and Sports at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games; N. Zonis Scene femminili: Educational Theater for Women; D. Cavallaro The Harem Exposed: Gabriella Parca's Le italiane si confessano; P. Morris Prostitutes and Politicians: The Women's Right Movement in the Legge Merlin Debates; M. Tambor Women's Writing in the Postwar Period; S. Wood 'Feminist' Fictions? Representations of Self and (M) Other in the Works of Anna Banti; U. Fanning Re/Constructing Domestic Space: INA-Casa and Public Housing in Postwar Rome or Women's Space in a Man-Made World; E. Nerenberg 'I don't want to die': Prostitution and Narrative Disruption in Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli; D. Hipkins Strong Women and Nontraditional Mothers: The Female Figures in Napoli Milionaria! and Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo; D. Fischer What Do Mothers Want? Takes on Motherhood in Bellissima, Il Grido, and Mamma Roma; L. Caldwell Index

The gap between prescriptions and behaviour, ideals and realities, expectations and outcomes provides the space for fascinating studies of a period of transition from a war-torn Italy to a country on the brink of unprecedented prosperity. Genuinely interdisciplinary in its scope, this collection includes neglected areas, such as the 1960 Rome Olympics or the advice columns of popular magazines, as well as revisiting more familiar texts. A valuable resource for students as well as scholars.' Robert Lumley, Professor, Department of Italian, University College London Reka Buckley * Lesley Caldwell * Daniela Cavallaro * Ursula Fanning * Donatella Fischer * Stephen Gundle * Danielle Hipkins * Penelope Morris * Ellen Nerenberg * Wendy Pojmann * Molly Tambor * Rebecca West * Mary Wood * Sharon Wood * Nadia Zonis JV C06C4501-CC05-4B5A-938F-FED157998081 376322 Electronic Book Text 279385 9780230524316 0230524311 Charms and Charming in Europe E.Book Charms Charming Europe 12/11/2004 11/12/2004 542 History - Academic J. Roper 14385 Edited By Author Record 1 Senior Researcher University of Tartu, Estonia 1969-11-17 00:00:00 roper@ut.ee British 542 History - Academic Scholarly Pal Scholarly E7 - Distributed to Vendors UK1 - Title Pending HB - History HIS010000; HIS010000 History - Social History; History - Witchcraft, Magic and the Occult; History - European History; History - Early Modern European History; History - History of Medicine, Science and Technology Professional and Scholarly 65.00 125.00 10.1057/9780230524316 312463826 Green PDF EBook 248 sa 2015-06-08 17:31:06.873 All Formats Full Term Copyright Introduction; J.Roper PART I: ISSUES IN CHARMS AND CHARMING The Transmission of Charms in English, Medieval and Modern; T.M.Smallwood On the Christianity of Incantations; D.E.Gay Typologising English and European Charms; J.Roper Towards a Pragmatic Typology of Love Charms; S.Golopentia The Self of a Charm; H.Ilomaki Charms in Medieval Memory; L.T.Olsan PART II: NATIONAL TRADITIONS French Healing Charms and Charmers from an English Perspective; O.Davies Eclecticism in the Russian Charm Tradition; W.F.Ryan Swedish Finn Incantations; U.Wolf-Knuts Evil Eye in Hungary: Belief, Ritual, Incantations; E.Pocs Historical records of charms, the verbal element of vernacular magic, date back at least as far as the late middle ages, and charming has continued to be practiced until recently in most parts of Europe. And yet, the topic has received only scattered scholarly attention to date. By bringing together many of the leading authorities on charms and charming from Europe and North America, this book aims to rectify this neglect, and by presenting discussions covering a variety of periods and of locations - from Finland to France, and from Hungary to England - it forms an essential reader on the topic. 1 Fascinating subject, due for revival of scholarly interest 2 Work by leading experts in the field 3 Wide range of perspectives from group of international scholars 4 Pan-European coverage '[A] thought-provoking history of charms from the medieval period.' - Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature OWEN DAVIES Lecturer in History, University of Hertfordshire, UK DAVID ELTON GAY Lecturer in Folklore, School of Continuing Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA SANDA GOLOPENTIA Professor of French Studies, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA HENNI ILOMAKI Chief Librarian of the Finnish Literature Society, Finland LEA T. OLSAN Professor Emerita of English, University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA EVA POCS Associate Professor, Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary W. F. RYAN Former Librarian of the Warburg Institute, Professor of Russian Studies and author T. M. SMALLWOOD Researcher ULRIKA WOLF-KNUTS Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Abo Akademi University, Finland JV 4EE69479-823F-4363-9656-FED41099676A 378916 Hardback 280278 9780230547100 0230547109 The New Politics of Conflict Resolution Responding to Difference RCS; New Politics of Conflict Res 03/11/2008 11/03/2008 562 Political Science - Academic M. Brigg 17989 By (Author) Author Record 1 Research and Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia 1970-12-18 00:00:00 m.brigg@uq.edu.au Australian 563 IR and Development - Academic Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies RCS Scholarly Pal Scholarly V6 - Manufacturing on Demand V6 - Print on Demand GTJ - Peace studies & conflict resolution; JPA - Political science & theory; JWLP - Peacekeeping operations; JKSN - Social work; GTF - Development studies POL034000; POL035000 Politics & IR - Conflict Resolution & Peacekeeping; Politics - Strategic and Security Studies College/Higher Education 68.00 68.00 105.00 Green Hardback - ppc (paper over boards) 240 0 216 138 Millimetres 12 216 Millimetres 138 435 Grams sa 2015-03-28 07:21:06.750 90000 Words 102617 All Formats 2007-01-23 00:00:00.000 Full Term Copyright Introduction PART I: ORDERING DIFFERENCE The Culture Challenge Governing Difference Sovereign Selves PART II: EXPLORING RELATEDNESS Recognition and Relatedness Responding Anew Conclusion This book shows that the conflict resolution field often denies difference even as it attempts to implement a progressive and responsive politics. Innovative theoretical analysis suggests ways of responding anew across difference and beyond dominant ways of thinking about political community and conflict. Culture and conflict resolution are topical at the moment but there are few in-depth singe authored works looking at this subject The author combines practical experience and theoretical discussion. The practitioner experience of the author is valuable, particularly since it is cross-cultural and thus directly relevant to the project Brigg has a unique perspective on culture and conflict, combining ontological/philosophical views such as Martin Buber, ideas about selfhood, and a socio-political approach The author's experience with Australian Aboriginal worldviews and the argument for relational ways of knowing generates a personable writing style which speaks directly to the reader '...Dr. Brigg's facility with language is remarkable...' Mohd. Moazzam Ali, University of Hyderabad, Journal of Intercultural Studies JV 7A786288-BDA2-4326-828B-FEEC3457F416 477169 Hardback 335533 9780230576063 0230576060 Settler and Creole Reenactment REH; Settler & Creole Reenac 29/12/2009 12/29/2009 542 History - Academic V. Agnew; J. Lamb 19630 Edited By Author Record 2 Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Vanderbilt University, USA 1945-05-03 00:00:00 jonathan.lamb@vanderbilt.edu British and US 542 History - Academic Re-Enactment History REH Scholarly Pal Scholarly V6 - Manufacturing on Demand V6 - Print on Demand HBG - General & world history; HBTB - Social & cultural history; ASZ - Other performing arts; HBLL - Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 HIS035000; HIS037000; HIS016000 History - Historiography; History - Imperial and Postcolonial History; History - Social and Cultural History; Environmental Studies - Ecology, Water Pollution and Control; History - World History College/Higher Education 82.00 82.00 100.00 Green Hardback - ppc (paper over boards) 272 0 216 138 Millimetres 18 216 Millimetres 138 558 Grams sa 2015-03-28 07:21:06.750 130000 Words 102617 All Formats 2009-04-06 00:00:00.000 Full Term Copyright Introduction; J.Lamb PART I: EUROPE Settlers, Workers and Soldiers: The Landscape of Total Mobilization; G.Teyssot Settlers on the Edge, or Sedentary Nomads: Andrei Platonov and Steppe History; D.Landry Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection; C.Pinney PART II: AMERICA Alexander Hamilton and the New Republic's Creole Complex; S.Goudie 'The Shrug of Horror': Creole Performance at King's Bench; J.Epstein Taxonomies of Terror; C.Dayan PART III: AFRICA Voortrekkers of the Cold War: Enacting the South African Past and Present in Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples; M.Popescu History Below the Water Line: The Making of Apartheid's Last Festival; L.Witz Failing with Livingstone: A Voyage of Re-enactment on Lake Nyassa; I.McCalman PART IV: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Alcheringa: Invisible Aborigines on TV; C.Healy Colonialism and Re-enactment History: Imagining Belonging in Outback House; C.Elder 'Blacking Up' for the 'Explorers' of 1951; S.Gapps 'The finest race of savages the world has seen' How Empire Turned out Differently in Australia and New Zealand; M.Williams Making History Forwards: The Second Settlement of Aotearoa, New Zealand; S.Turner Re-Enactment and the Natural History of Settlement; A.Calder Bibliography Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. New area of academic research, here being approached by some of the finest minds in the Australasian, American and European academies Re-enactment is a crucial component of a broad enquiry now being undertaken in several disciplines across the Humanities Second book in new series forming a crucial part of graduate and advanced undergraduate theoretical equipment VANESSA AGNEW Associate Professor, German Department, University of Michigan, USA ALEX CALDER English Department, the University of Auckland, New Zealand COLIN DAYAN Robert Penn Warren Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, USA CATRIONA ELDER Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Policy Department, the University of Sydney, Australia JAMES EPSTEIN Professor in the Department of History, Vanderbilt University, USA STEPHEN GAPPS Consultant Historian and co-director, 'History Events Management Company' HISTORICA SEAN X. GOUDIE Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA CHRIS HEALY Lecturer in Cultural Studies, the University of Melbourne, Australia JONATHAN LAMB Visiting fellow, Kings College, Cambridge, UK and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, USA DONNA LANDRY Professor of English and American Literature, the University of Kent, UK IAIN MCCALMAN Research Professor, the University of Sydney, Australia CHRISTOPHER PINNEY Visiting Crowe Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA MONICA POPESCU Assistant Professor of English, McGill University, Canada JO SMITH Senior Lecturer in the Media Studies Program, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand GEORGES TEYSSOT Professor, Laval University's School of Architecture, Quebec, Canada STEPHEN TURNER Senior Lecturer, Department of English, the University of Auckland, New Zealand MARK WILLIAMS Department of English, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand LESLIE WITZ Professor of History, the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa JV 7A786288-BDA2-4326-828B-FEEC3457F416 477169 Hardback 335533 9780230576063 0230576060 Settler and Creole Reenactment REH; Settler & Creole Reenac 29/12/2009 12/29/2009 542 History - Academic V. Agnew; J. Lamb 19631 Edited By Author Record 1 Associate Professor University of Michigan, USA 1966-02-05 00:00:00 vagnew@umich.edu Australian 542 History - Academic Re-Enactment History REH Scholarly Pal Scholarly V6 - Manufacturing on Demand V6 - Print on Demand HBG - General & world history; HBTB - Social & cultural history; ASZ - Other performing arts; HBLL - Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 HIS035000; HIS037000; HIS016000 History - Historiography; History - Imperial and Postcolonial History; History - Social and Cultural History; Environmental Studies - Ecology, Water Pollution and Control; History - World History College/Higher Education 82.00 82.00 100.00 Green Hardback - ppc (paper over boards) 272 0 216 138 Millimetres 18 216 Millimetres 138 558 Grams sa 2015-03-28 07:21:06.750 130000 Words 102617 All Formats 2009-04-06 00:00:00.000 Full Term Copyright Introduction; J.Lamb PART I: EUROPE Settlers, Workers and Soldiers: The Landscape of Total Mobilization; G.Teyssot Settlers on the Edge, or Sedentary Nomads: Andrei Platonov and Steppe History; D.Landry Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection; C.Pinney PART II: AMERICA Alexander Hamilton and the New Republic's Creole Complex; S.Goudie 'The Shrug of Horror': Creole Performance at King's Bench; J.Epstein Taxonomies of Terror; C.Dayan PART III: AFRICA Voortrekkers of the Cold War: Enacting the South African Past and Present in Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples; M.Popescu History Below the Water Line: The Making of Apartheid's Last Festival; L.Witz Failing with Livingstone: A Voyage of Re-enactment on Lake Nyassa; I.McCalman PART IV: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Alcheringa: Invisible Aborigines on TV; C.Healy Colonialism and Re-enactment History: Imagining Belonging in Outback House; C.Elder 'Blacking Up' for the 'Explorers' of 1951; S.Gapps 'The finest race of savages the world has seen' How Empire Turned out Differently in Australia and New Zealand; M.Williams Making History Forwards: The Second Settlement of Aotearoa, New Zealand; S.Turner Re-Enactment and the Natural History of Settlement; A.Calder Bibliography Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them. New area of academic research, here being approached by some of the finest minds in the Australasian, American and European academies Re-enactment is a crucial component of a broad enquiry now being undertaken in several disciplines across the Humanities Second book in new series forming a crucial part of graduate and advanced undergraduate theoretical equipment VANESSA AGNEW Associate Professor, German Department, University of Michigan, USA ALEX CALDER English Department, the University of Auckland, New Zealand COLIN DAYAN Robert Penn Warren Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, USA CATRIONA ELDER Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Social Policy Department, the University of Sydney, Australia JAMES EPSTEIN Professor in the Department of History, Vanderbilt University, USA STEPHEN GAPPS Consultant Historian and co-director, 'History Events Management Company' HISTORICA SEAN X. GOUDIE Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA CHRIS HEALY Lecturer in Cultural Studies, the University of Melbourne, Australia JONATHAN LAMB Visiting fellow, Kings College, Cambridge, UK and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, USA DONNA LANDRY Professor of English and American Literature, the University of Kent, UK IAIN MCCALMAN Research Professor, the University of Sydney, Australia CHRISTOPHER PINNEY Visiting Crowe Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA MONICA POPESCU Assistant Professor of English, McGill University, Canada JO SMITH Senior Lecturer in the Media Studies Program, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand GEORGES TEYSSOT Professor, Laval University's School of Architecture, Quebec, Canada STEPHEN TURNER Senior Lecturer, Department of English, the University of Auckland, New Zealand MARK WILLIAMS Department of English, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand LESLIE WITZ Professor of History, the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa JV 1A5F02C6-7BC4-475A-9D05-FEF5C6C72A71 433907 Paperback 299498 9780230606302 023060630X The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions Stories for Resistance Reversing the Global Assault on Tea 23/05/2008 05/23/2008 66A Education - USA Academic L. 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Murphey Campaign Against the Opening of City Academies in England; Ian Murch An Inner-City Public School Teacher's Story from China; Yihuai Cai What Teachers Want from their Unions: What We Know from Research; Nina Bascia Challenging Neo-Liberalism: Education Unions in Australia; Rob Durbridge Teaching, a Profession under Attack: Contradictions and Tensions in the Place of Teachers in Educational Reform: Reflections upon the Role of Teachers in Recent Educational Reforms in the United States and Namibia; Ken Zeichner Universalization of Elementary Education in India: A Dream Deferred is a Dream Denied; Basanti Chakraoborty Educational Restructuring, Democratic Education, and Teachers; Alvaro Moreira Hypolito Neo-Liberalism, Inequality, and Teacher Unions: Sodexho in the Chicago Public Schools; Kyle Westbrook Homophobia in St. Lucian Schools: A Perspective from a Select Group of Teachers; Urban Dolor Work on Aboriginal Education in a Social Justice Union: Reflections from the Inside; Chris Stewart South African Teachers and Social Movements: Old and New; Shermain Mannah & Jon Lewis Schooling and Class in Germany: An Interview with Eberhard Brandt and Susanne Gondermann; Mary Compton Education or Mind Infection?; Nurit Peled-Elhanan Going on the Offensive: Interview with Thulas Nxesi, President of the Education International; Mary Compton The Context of Teachers' Democratic Movements in Mexico; Rodolfo Rincones In Mexico, to Defend Education as a Social Right, We Must Fight for Union Democracy; Maria de la Luz Arriaga Lemus A History of the Search for Teacher Unity in South Africa; Harold Samuel British Teacher Unions and the Blair Government Anatomy of an Abusive Relationship; Mary Compton Building the International Movement We Need: Why a Consistent Defense of Democracy is Essential; Lois Weiner Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher's union leaders from around the world fuses insights with background and analysis to make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children. 1) ADDS TO THE DEBATE: Free market reforms to education have come under scrutiny and the authors advance a unique argument for teaching unions. 2) GREAT CONTRIBUTORS: The contributors are from around the globe and offer a well balanced approach. 3) WELL CONNECTED AUTHORS: Both Weiner and Compton are very connected to teaching unions worldwide that are sure to promote the book. 'If you want to understand what is happening to education across the globe in the face of privatisation and marketisation this book is indispensable.' - Laura Miles, Socialist Review Susan Robertson *John Nyambe *Rodolfo Rincones * Elaine Hampton *Cesar Silva * Jetta Steensen * Margueritte Williams * Larry Kuehn * Kathleen A. 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Compton 20187 Edited By Author Record 2 marypope@btopenworld.com 66A Education - USA Academic US Domestic Pal Scholarly V6 - Manufacturing on Demand V6 - Print on Demand JNK - Organization & management of education; JNT - Teaching skills & techniques EDU037000; EDU036000; EDU034000 Chemistry - Organic Chemistry; Education - Organisations and Institutions; Astronomy and Space - Comets, Meteors and Asteroids; Education - Teaching; Education - Educational Reform Professional and Scholarly 25.00 25.00 40.00 Paperback 304 0 210 140 Millimetres 15 234 Millimetres 156 386 Grams importv 2015-05-28 04:46:13.293 Words Neo-Liberalism, Teachers, and Teaching: Understanding the Assault: The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Teacher Unions; Mary Compton & Lois Weiner 'Remaking the World': Neo-Liberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teacher's Labor; Susan Robertson Neo-Liberalism's Global Footprint: Education Reform under Strangulation; John Nyambe Teaching for the Factory: Neo-Liberalism in Mexican Education; Rodolfo Rincones, Elaine Hampton, & Cesar Silva Neo-Liberal Education in Denmark; Jette Steensen Higher and Tertiary Education in the West Indies: Ensnared by GATS; Margueritte Cummins Williams The Education World is Not Flat: Neo-Liberalism's Global Project and Teacher Unions' Transnational Resistance; Larry Kuehn The Need for Unions to Defend Public Education: Teachers and their Unions: Why Social Class 'Counts'; Kathleen A. Murphey Campaign Against the Opening of City Academies in England; Ian Murch An Inner-City Public School Teacher's Story from China; Yihuai Cai What Teachers Want from their Unions: What We Know from Research; Nina Bascia Challenging Neo-Liberalism: Education Unions in Australia; Rob Durbridge Teaching, a Profession under Attack: Contradictions and Tensions in the Place of Teachers in Educational Reform: Reflections upon the Role of Teachers in Recent Educational Reforms in the United States and Namibia; Ken Zeichner Universalization of Elementary Education in India: A Dream Deferred is a Dream Denied; Basanti Chakraoborty Educational Restructuring, Democratic Education, and Teachers; Alvaro Moreira Hypolito Neo-Liberalism, Inequality, and Teacher Unions: Sodexho in the Chicago Public Schools; Kyle Westbrook Homophobia in St. Lucian Schools: A Perspective from a Select Group of Teachers; Urban Dolor Work on Aboriginal Education in a Social Justice Union: Reflections from the Inside; Chris Stewart South African Teachers and Social Movements: Old and New; Shermain Mannah & Jon Lewis Schooling and Class in Germany: An Interview with Eberhard Brandt and Susanne Gondermann; Mary Compton Education or Mind Infection?; Nurit Peled-Elhanan Going on the Offensive: Interview with Thulas Nxesi, President of the Education International; Mary Compton The Context of Teachers' Democratic Movements in Mexico; Rodolfo Rincones In Mexico, to Defend Education as a Social Right, We Must Fight for Union Democracy; Maria de la Luz Arriaga Lemus A History of the Search for Teacher Unity in South Africa; Harold Samuel British Teacher Unions and the Blair Government Anatomy of an Abusive Relationship; Mary Compton Building the International Movement We Need: Why a Consistent Defense of Democracy is Essential; Lois Weiner Public education's character is increasingly under assault as privatization of education is advanced. This collection of essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher's union leaders from around the world fuses insights with background and analysis to make real the goal of quality education for all the world's children. 1) ADDS TO THE DEBATE: Free market reforms to education have come under scrutiny and the authors advance a unique argument for teaching unions. 2) GREAT CONTRIBUTORS: The contributors are from around the globe and offer a well balanced approach. 3) WELL CONNECTED AUTHORS: Both Weiner and Compton are very connected to teaching unions worldwide that are sure to promote the book. 'If you want to understand what is happening to education across the globe in the face of privatisation and marketisation this book is indispensable.' - Laura Miles, Socialist Review Susan Robertson *John Nyambe *Rodolfo Rincones * Elaine Hampton *Cesar Silva * Jetta Steensen * Margueritte Williams * Larry Kuehn * Kathleen A. Murphey * Ian Murch * Yihuai Cai * Nina Bascia * Rob Durbridge* Ken Zeichner * Basanti Chakraoborty * Alvaro Moreira Hypolito * Kyle Westbrook * Urban Dolor * Chris Stewart * Shermain Mannah* Jon Lewis * Nurit Peled-Elhanan * Rodolfo Rincones * Maria de la Luz Arriaga Lemus * Harold Samuel JV 0A76BDCB-4DD7-48BD-8954-FEF793DEF654 401703 Electronic Book Text 495366 9780230599086 0230599087 The Rise and Fall of the European Defence Community Anglo-American Relations and the Crisis of European Defence, 1950-55 E.Book CWH;Rise & Fall of Euro Defence 06/06/2000 06/06/2000 542 History - Academic K. Ruane 10006 By (Author) Author Record 1 Canterbury Christ Church College k.j.ruane@cant.ac.uk 542 History - Academic Cold War History CWH Scholarly Pal Scholarly E7 - Distributed to Vendors UK1 - Title Pending JWK - Defence strategy, planning & research; HBJD1 - British & Irish history; HBJK - History of the Americas; JPS - International relations; HBLW3 - Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; 3JJP - Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000 History - Early Modern European History Professional and Scholarly 87.50 168.00 10.1057/9780230599086 681925226 Green PDF EBook 264 sa 2015-06-08 17:31:06.873 Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Agonizing Reappraisals PART I: THE CRISIS LOOMS Britain, the United States and the Rearming of Germany: October 1950 to May 1952 Anglo-American Relations and the EDC: May 1952 to December 1953 PART II: THE CRISIS BREAKS A Parting of the Ways: The Bermuda Conference and Paris NATO Council, December 1953 French Ratification of the EDC: Competing Anglo-American Approaches, January to July 1954 The Death of the EDC: July to August 1954 PART III: THE CRISIS RESOLVED Selling the Solution: British Crisis Management: August to September 1954 Anglo-American Divorce and Reconciliation: September 1954 Phoenix from the Ashes: The Birth of the Western European Union, October 1954 to May 1955 PART IV: CONCLUSION Agonizing Reappraisals: Anglo-American Relations and the Crisis of European Defence Bibliography Index Using the European Defence Community (EDC) as a case-study, this book examines the competing and often conflicting view of the British and American governments towards European integration in the early 1950s. The British, fearing an 'agonizing reappraisal' of the American defence commitment to Europe if the supranational EDC failed, went to great lengths to ensure the success of the scheme. When, despite these efforts, the EDC finally collapsed in August 1954, NATO was plunged into arguably the most severe crisis in its history. The crisis also possessed an Anglo-American dimension, with London and Washington badly divided on how it should be resolved. In the end, the British were instrumental in the creation of the Western European Union as a successor to the EDC. Their crisis management, however, had been rooted in fear of the 'agonizing reappraisal', a danger dismissed by many historians as exaggerated but which the British, in 1954, were perhaps right to take seriously. 1 New look at the controversy surrounding the 'agonizing reappraisal' of US commitment to Europe in the early 1950s 2 Important study of US-British relations in early cold war 3 Re-examination of a key episode in European history 4 Examines how personal differences contributed to the political crisis 5 Pre-publication endorsements '... an impressively researched and cogently argued study of the ill-fated treaty to establish a European Defense Community at the apex of the Cold War. No student of international history, nor observer of contemporary international politics, can afford to overlook this book.' - Professor Richard H. Immerman, Temple University, USA 'Kevin Ruane's book is a well-written and forcefully argued account of the British role in the rise and fall of the European Defense Community ... a first-class work of historical writing.' - Professor Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University, USA 'With its thorough grasp of the sources, Kevin Ruane's book throws new light on the ill-fated European Defense Community...' - Professor John W. Young, University of Leicester 'Kevin Ruane's study of the crisis surrounding European Defence arrangements in the early 1950s makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Anglo-American relations and of British attitudes towards the early stages of European integration.' - Dr David Dutton, University of Liverpool 'This is a book well worth reading for both specialists and those with a more general interest...' - John W. Coogan, Albion '...this elegantly crafted and subtly argued book achieves a thoughtful and significant reevaluation...' - American Historical Review JV 4D699395-320F-4057-B895-FEF843BF03DB 378353 Paperback 281061 9780230537453 0230537456 Against Theatre Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage Pi; Against Theatre 11/10/2007 10/11/2007 572 Theatre/Performance Studies - Academic A. Ackerman; M. Puchner 14656 ...