Martin Conway

The Sorrows of Belgium

Liberation and Political Reconstruction, 1944-1947

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a vivid account of the conflicts in western Europe, specifically Belgium, at the end of the Second World War; from the Allied liberation to the departure of the Communist ministers from government in 1947.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9780199694341
• ISBN-10: 0199694346
• Artikelnr.: 36448509

Autorenporträt

Martin Conway is a historian of twentieth-century Europe at the University of Oxford. He has written widely on aspects of the history of Europe, focusing particularly on the making and unmaking of democratic politics in inter-war and post-1945 Europe. He has long had a particular interest in the history of Belgium. His first book on pro-German collaboration in Belgium during the Second World War was published in French- and Dutch-language editions in Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Legacies of an Occupation, 1940 - 1944
* 2: The Struggle for Liberty and Legality, September 1944 - February
1945
* 3: Recovery and Upheaval, February - August 1945
* 4: The Dynamics of Political Normalisation, Summer 1945 - February
1946
* 5: The Reconstruction of the Belgian Nation-State and Post-War
Elections, Summer 1945 - February 1946
* 6: The Social Normalisation of Belgium 1945 - 1947
* 7: Economic Conflict and Political Realignment, February 1946 - March
1947
* 8: The Death of Belgium
* Bibliography