Making the New Europe

European Unity and the Second World War

M. L. Smith, Peter M.R. Stirk, M. L. Smith, Peter M.R. Stirk

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781474290296
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474290302
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

This volume evaluates the notion of European Unity in a period when European identity was subjected to the destructive consequences of Nazi and Fascist domination of much of the Continent. By presenting the competing visions of transformation and reconstruction played out during the war years the book aims to provide broader-based and more complex insights into forces that shaped the post-war period than those in conventional accounts that locate the thinking about European unity only in the years after 1945.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: European unity and the Second World War
• 2 The prospects for the German domination of Europe in the era of the world wars
• 3 The Italian Fascist New Order in Europe
• 4 The anti-Bolshevik crusade and Europe
• 5 Anti-Americanism in National Socialist propaganda during the Second World War
• 6 The integration of Czechoslovakia in the economic system of Nazi Germany
• 7 Making the new Netherlands: ideas about renewal in Dutch politics and society during the Second World War
• 8 Shaping a new Belgium: the CEP AG—the Belgian Commission for the Study of Post-War Problems, 1941-44
• 9 Reality not rhetoric: Belgian-Dutch diplomacy in Wartime London, 1940-44
• 10 Political Catholicism, European unity and the rise of Christian Democracy
• 11 British ideas of European unity and regional confederation in the context of Anglo-Soviet relations, 1941-45
• 12 The wartime national fronts in eastern Europe: ideal and reality
• 13 The American challenge and the origins of the politics of growth
• Index