TY  - BOOK
ED  - Verpoest, Luc
ED  - engelen, leen
ED  - Heynickx, Rajesh
ED  - Schmidt, Jan
ED  - Uyttenhove, Pieter
ED  - Verstraete, Pieter
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.11116/9789461663542
KW  - first world war
KW  - 1920s
KW  - post-war reform
KW  - post-war recovery
KW  - remembrance
KW  - post-war reconstruction
KW  - history of disability
KW  - history of urbanism
KW  - architectural history
KW  - history of education
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/99517982-a436-478a-9a87-1d369195f9f8/9789461663542.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43023
PB  - Leuven University Press
PP  - Leuven
PY  - 2020
TI  - Revival After the Great War : Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform
ER  - 
