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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 country's 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 rebuilding 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 postwar tabula rasa offered many innovative opportunities in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of postwar recovery is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into the postwar era in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how those efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and ProjectMuse Contributors: Helen Brooks (University of Kent), Dries Claeys (KU Leuven), Marisa De Picker (KU Leuven), Leen Engelen (LUCA/KU Leuven), Rajesh Heynickx (KU Leuven), John Horne (Trinity College Dublin), Maarten Liefooghe (Ghent University), Ana Paula Pires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Richard Plunz (Columbia University), Tammy Proctor (Utah State University), Pierre Purseigle (University of Warwick), Carolina Garcia Sanz (Universidad de Sevilla), Jan Schmidt (KU Leuven), Yves Segers (KU Leuven), Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University), Maria Ines Tato (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Pieter Uyttenhove (Ghent University), Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven), Luc Verpoest (KU Leuven), Pieter Verstraete (KU Leuven), Volker Welter (University of California), Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)

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Together, the four pillars of post-war memory cover the materiality of heritage-making politics, different sources of memory, ways in which the presence of war invalids affected European societies, and how to place the war in an international institutional context. Readers will draw lessons applicable to the contemporary era―for example about war-induced forced migration and the evolution of nationalism. This rich volume should naturally be of interest to WWI historians. But beyond this obvious appeal, the book speaks to scholars in memory studies and anyone exploring commemorative landscapes and processes to better understand how the past is used to forge a future (and which/whose future).
Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow, October 2021, https://www.europenowjournal.org/2021/10/18/october-2021/


»Revival« ist der zweite Sammelband zur Kriegsbewältigung in der europäischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, den der belgische Architekturhistoriker Luc Verpoest als Emeritus an der Katholieke Universiteit Leuven federführend herausgegeben hat. Stand im gemeinsam mit Nicholas Bullock publizierten Band »Living with History« aus dem Jahr 2011 der diachrone Vergleich zwischen erster und zweiter Nachkriegszeit im Vordergrund und lag der Fokus auf dem Wechselspiel aus materiellem Wiederaufbau und Denkmalschutz, fasst der nun vorliegende Sammelband seinen Gegenstand chronologisch enger, inhaltlich jedoch breiter. »Revival« steht als Oberbegriff für ein Spektrum an Phänomenen von der Anpassung materieller Gegebenheiten und physischer Zustände bis hin zu kulturellen Deutungsakten im Umgang mit den Kriegsfolgen. Der Zeitraum der Untersuchungen ist mit der Chiffre »nach dem Großen Krieg« grob abgesteckt: Er umspannt im Wesentlichen die Jahre zwischen Waffenstillstand und Ruhrkrise, wobei letztere als Zäsur der Politik- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte im hiesigen Zusammenhang ausgespart bleibt und der Waffenstillstand als ereignisgeschichtliche Wegmarke eine Nebenrolle einnimmt. Hinzu kommen substanzielle Rückgriffe auf die Zeit des Weltkriegs, die auf der richtigen Feststellung beruhen, dass Prozesse des Reparierens, des Wiederaufbauens, aber auch des Erinnerns keine alleinigen Phänomene der Nachkriegszeit waren, sondern bereits kurz nach Kriegsbeginn einsetzten.Anna Karla, Francia-Recensio, 2021 | 4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2021.4.85144


C’est donc sur un grand sujet que porte cet ouvrage collectif, issu d’un colloque organisé en mai 2018 à Louvain. De manière novatrice, les chapitres interrogent la pertinence de la dimension nationale dans l’étude des reconstructions d’après-guerre et présentent un modèle alternatif, qui lie fortement le niveau local aux efforts transnationaux (Pierre Purseigle). Outre leur étude des espaces de la guerre et de la sortie de guerre, les auteurs retravaillent aussi la question de la reconstruction pour en dévoiler les multiples aspects.
Bruno Cabanes, 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire 2021/4 (N° 152), pages 181 à 212, DOI 10.3917/vin.152.0181



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AcknowledgementsIntroductionRevival After The First World War: Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform Luc Verpoest, Leen Engelen, Rajesh Heynickx, Jan Schmidt, Pieter Uyttenhove & Pieter Verstraete
PART ONE — REBUILD
Catastrophe and Reconstruction in Western Europe: The Urban Aftermath of the First World War Pierre Purseigle
Reflections on Leuven as Martyred City and the Realignment of Propinquity Richard Plunz
Making Good Farmers by Making Better Farms: Farmstead Architecture and Social Engineering in Belgium After the Great War Dries Claeys & Yves Segers
“C’est la beauté de l’ensemble qu’il faut viser.” Notes on Changing Heritage Values of Belgian Post-World War I Reconstruction Townscapes Maarten Liefooghe
Rebuilding, Recovery, Reconceptualization: Modern architecture and the First World War Volker M. Welter
PART TWO — REMEMBER
Reclaiming the Ordinary: Civilians Face the Post-war World Tammy M. Proctor
Expressing Grief and Gratitude in an Unsettled Time Temporary First World War Memorials in Belgium Leen Engelen & Marjan Sterckx
Remembering the War on the British Stage: From Resistance to Reconstruction Helen E. M. Brooks
A War to Learn From: Commemorative Practices in Belgian Schools After World War l Kaat Wils PART THREE — REPAIR
High Expectations and Silenced Realities: The Re-education of Belgian Disabled Soldiers of the Great War, 1914–1921 Pieter Verstraete and Marisa De Picker
Back to work: Riccardo Galeazzi’s Work for the Mutilated Veterans of the Great War, Between German Model and Italian Approach Simonetta Polenghi
Competition over Care: The Campaign for a New Medical Campus at the University of Leuven in the 1920s Joris Vandendriessche
PART FOUR — REFORM
An Argentine Witness of the Occupation and Reconstruction of Belgium: The Writings of Roberto J. Payró (1918-1922) María Inés Tato
The New Post-war Order from the Perspective of the Spanish Struggle for Regeneration (1918-1923) Carolina García Sanz
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 Ana Paula Pires
Reconstruction, Reform and Peace in Europe after the First World War John Horne
Bibliography List of Contributors

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    Book Synopsis
    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 country's 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 rebuilding 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 postwar tabula rasa offered many innovative opportunities in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of postwar recovery is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into the postwar era in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how those efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and ProjectMuse Contributors: Helen Brooks (University of Kent), Dries Claeys (KU Leuven), Marisa De Picker (KU Leuven), Leen Engelen (LUCA/KU Leuven), Rajesh Heynickx (KU Leuven), John Horne (Trinity College Dublin), Maarten Liefooghe (Ghent University), Ana Paula Pires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Richard Plunz (Columbia University), Tammy Proctor (Utah State University), Pierre Purseigle (University of Warwick), Carolina Garcia Sanz (Universidad de Sevilla), Jan Schmidt (KU Leuven), Yves Segers (KU Leuven), Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University), Maria Ines Tato (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Pieter Uyttenhove (Ghent University), Joris Vandendriessche (KU Leuven), Luc Verpoest (KU Leuven), Pieter Verstraete (KU Leuven), Volker Welter (University of California), Kaat Wils (KU Leuven)

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    Together, the four pillars of post-war memory cover the materiality of heritage-making politics, different sources of memory, ways in which the presence of war invalids affected European societies, and how to place the war in an international institutional context. Readers will draw lessons applicable to the contemporary era―for example about war-induced forced migration and the evolution of nationalism. This rich volume should naturally be of interest to WWI historians. But beyond this obvious appeal, the book speaks to scholars in memory studies and anyone exploring commemorative landscapes and processes to better understand how the past is used to forge a future (and which/whose future).
    Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow, October 2021, https://www.europenowjournal.org/2021/10/18/october-2021/


    »Revival« ist der zweite Sammelband zur Kriegsbewältigung in der europäischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, den der belgische Architekturhistoriker Luc Verpoest als Emeritus an der Katholieke Universiteit Leuven federführend herausgegeben hat. Stand im gemeinsam mit Nicholas Bullock publizierten Band »Living with History« aus dem Jahr 2011 der diachrone Vergleich zwischen erster und zweiter Nachkriegszeit im Vordergrund und lag der Fokus auf dem Wechselspiel aus materiellem Wiederaufbau und Denkmalschutz, fasst der nun vorliegende Sammelband seinen Gegenstand chronologisch enger, inhaltlich jedoch breiter. »Revival« steht als Oberbegriff für ein Spektrum an Phänomenen von der Anpassung materieller Gegebenheiten und physischer Zustände bis hin zu kulturellen Deutungsakten im Umgang mit den Kriegsfolgen. Der Zeitraum der Untersuchungen ist mit der Chiffre »nach dem Großen Krieg« grob abgesteckt: Er umspannt im Wesentlichen die Jahre zwischen Waffenstillstand und Ruhrkrise, wobei letztere als Zäsur der Politik- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte im hiesigen Zusammenhang ausgespart bleibt und der Waffenstillstand als ereignisgeschichtliche Wegmarke eine Nebenrolle einnimmt. Hinzu kommen substanzielle Rückgriffe auf die Zeit des Weltkriegs, die auf der richtigen Feststellung beruhen, dass Prozesse des Reparierens, des Wiederaufbauens, aber auch des Erinnerns keine alleinigen Phänomene der Nachkriegszeit waren, sondern bereits kurz nach Kriegsbeginn einsetzten.Anna Karla, Francia-Recensio, 2021 | 4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2021.4.85144


    C’est donc sur un grand sujet que porte cet ouvrage collectif, issu d’un colloque organisé en mai 2018 à Louvain. De manière novatrice, les chapitres interrogent la pertinence de la dimension nationale dans l’étude des reconstructions d’après-guerre et présentent un modèle alternatif, qui lie fortement le niveau local aux efforts transnationaux (Pierre Purseigle). Outre leur étude des espaces de la guerre et de la sortie de guerre, les auteurs retravaillent aussi la question de la reconstruction pour en dévoiler les multiples aspects.
    Bruno Cabanes, 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire 2021/4 (N° 152), pages 181 à 212, DOI 10.3917/vin.152.0181



    Table of Contents

    AcknowledgementsIntroductionRevival After The First World War: Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform Luc Verpoest, Leen Engelen, Rajesh Heynickx, Jan Schmidt, Pieter Uyttenhove & Pieter Verstraete
    PART ONE — REBUILD
    Catastrophe and Reconstruction in Western Europe: The Urban Aftermath of the First World War Pierre Purseigle
    Reflections on Leuven as Martyred City and the Realignment of Propinquity Richard Plunz
    Making Good Farmers by Making Better Farms: Farmstead Architecture and Social Engineering in Belgium After the Great War Dries Claeys & Yves Segers
    “C’est la beauté de l’ensemble qu’il faut viser.” Notes on Changing Heritage Values of Belgian Post-World War I Reconstruction Townscapes Maarten Liefooghe
    Rebuilding, Recovery, Reconceptualization: Modern architecture and the First World War Volker M. Welter
    PART TWO — REMEMBER
    Reclaiming the Ordinary: Civilians Face the Post-war World Tammy M. Proctor
    Expressing Grief and Gratitude in an Unsettled Time Temporary First World War Memorials in Belgium Leen Engelen & Marjan Sterckx
    Remembering the War on the British Stage: From Resistance to Reconstruction Helen E. M. Brooks
    A War to Learn From: Commemorative Practices in Belgian Schools After World War l Kaat Wils PART THREE — REPAIR
    High Expectations and Silenced Realities: The Re-education of Belgian Disabled Soldiers of the Great War, 1914–1921 Pieter Verstraete and Marisa De Picker
    Back to work: Riccardo Galeazzi’s Work for the Mutilated Veterans of the Great War, Between German Model and Italian Approach Simonetta Polenghi
    Competition over Care: The Campaign for a New Medical Campus at the University of Leuven in the 1920s Joris Vandendriessche
    PART FOUR — REFORM
    An Argentine Witness of the Occupation and Reconstruction of Belgium: The Writings of Roberto J. Payró (1918-1922) María Inés Tato
    The New Post-war Order from the Perspective of the Spanish Struggle for Regeneration (1918-1923) Carolina García Sanz
    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 Ana Paula Pires
    Reconstruction, Reform and Peace in Europe after the First World War John Horne
    Bibliography List of Contributors

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