In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.
Catastrophe and Reconstruction in Western Europe: The Urban Aftermath of the First World War
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Making Good Farmers by Making Better Farms: Farmstead Architecture and Social Engineering in Belgium After the Great War
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“C’est la beauté de l’ensemble qu’il faut viser": Notes on Changing Heritage Values of Belgian Post-World War I Reconstruction Townscapes
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Rebuilding, Recovery, Reconceptualization: Modern architecture and the First World War
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Remembering the War on the British Stage: From Resistance to Reconstruction
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High Expectations and Silenced Realities: The Re-education of Belgian Disabled Soldiers of the Great War, 1914–1921
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Back to work: Riccardo Galeazzi’s Work for the Mutilated Veterans of the Great War, Between German Model and Italian Approach
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Competition over Care: The Campaign for a New Medical Campus at the University of Leuven in the 1920s
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An Argentine Witness of the Occupation and Reconstruction of Belgium: The Writings of Roberto J. Payró (1918-1922)
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The Act of Giving: Political Instability and the Reform(ation) of Humanitarian Responses to Violence in Portugal in the Aftermath of the First World War
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