Zero Hours : Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginnings in the Interwar Period.
Başlık:
Zero Hours : Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginnings in the Interwar Period.
Yazar:
Schulz-Forberg, Hagen.
ISBN:
9783035263633
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Seri:
Europe plurielle / Multiple Europes ; v.53
Europe plurielle / Multiple Europes
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: Time and Again Toward the Future. Claims on Time as a New Approach for Global History (Hagen SCHULZ-FORBERG) -- PART I: SPACES. CHINA, INDIA, EUROPE, AFRICA, NORTH AMERICA -- "The Power of Music". Strengthening China in the 1920s (Andreas STEEN) -- Fascist Italy. Ideal Template for India's Economic Development? (Maria FRAMKE) -- Social Reforms in the Interwar Period and the "Revolution" of the Popular Front in French Africa (Omar GUÈYE) -- Space and Spirit in the European Colonial Imagination after the First World War (Christoffer KØLVRAA) -- Contours of the New Diplomacy (Kenneth WEISBRODE) -- PART II: CONCEPTS. BORDER, REVOLUTION, ART, HEALTH, ECONOMICS -- War Aims, Wilsonian Ideas, and the 'New Diplomacy'. Reinventing the Franco-German Border of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-1919 (Volker PROTT) -- French Revolution and Communist Future. Historical Time and Agency in European Labour Movements at the End of the First World War (Bertel NYGAARD) -- To the Biennale, and the Anti-Biennale. How the Lone Cleanser of the World Briefly Contributed to the Globalisation of Art Exhibition in Aestival Venice of 1920-22 (James KAYE) -- 1918. International Health between Cordon Sanitaires and Rural Hygiene (Niels BRIMNES) -- Rejuvenating Liberalism. Economic Thought, Social Imagination and the Invention of Neoliberalism in the 1930s (Hagen SCHULZ-FORBERG) -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Özet:
To cut off time and seal away the past, to proclaim a new beginning in the present and project a better future onto tomorrow - and thus to make history - is a key signature of modern social, political and cultural discourses. In this book, this practice is represented through the metaphor of the Zero Hour, which alludes to the wish to rebuild the past in the face of a crisis-ridden present characterised by growing conceptual insecurity, hoping for a more stable future. Indeed, the ever-new construction of our past, sequenced and ordered in explanatory narratives, bears witness to a future that 'ought to be'. As the case studies in this volume show, this is a global phenomenon. Against the backdrop of a confluence of experiences which unsettled conceptual norms after the First World War, this volume presents a novel approach to global history as it examines ways of breaking with the past and the way in which societies, as well as transnational historical actors, employ key concepts to compose arguments for a better tomorrow.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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