Revival After the Great War

Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6270-250-9
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

The
challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design

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.

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 Inés
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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Autoren/Hrsg.

Verpoest, Luc

Engelen, Leen

Heynickx, Rajesh

Schmidt, Jan

Uyttenhove, Pieter

Verstraete, Pieter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Restaurierung, Konservierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
IntroductionRevival After The First World War: Rebuild, Remember, Repair, ReformLuc 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 WarPierre Purseigle
Reflections on Leuven as Martyred City and the Realignment of PropinquityRichard Plunz
Making Good Farmers by Making Better Farms: Farmstead Architecture and Social Engineering in Belgium After the Great WarDries 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 TownscapesMaarten Liefooghe
Rebuilding, Recovery, Reconceptualization: Modern architecture and the First World WarVolker M. Welter
PART TWO — REMEMBER
Reclaiming the Ordinary: Civilians Face the Post-war WorldTammy M. Proctor
Expressing Grief and Gratitude in an Unsettled Time Temporary First World War Memorials in BelgiumLeen Engelen & Marjan Sterckx
Remembering the War on the British Stage: From Resistance to ReconstructionHelen E. M. Brooks
A War to Learn From: Commemorative Practices in Belgian Schools After World War lKaat Wils
PART THREE — REPAIR
High Expectations and Silenced Realities: The Re-education of Belgian Disabled Soldiers of the Great War, 1914–1921Pieter 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 ApproachSimonetta Polenghi
Competition over Care: The Campaign for a New Medical Campus at the University of Leuven in the 1920sJoris 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 WarAna Paula Pires
Reconstruction, Reform and Peace in Europe after the First World WarJohn Horne
Bibliography List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Heynickx, Rajesh
Rajesh Heynickx is intellectual historian at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture.

Verstraete, Pieter
Pieter Verstraete is associate professor of history of education at KU Leuven and curator of the annual Leuven DisABILITY Film festival.

Pieter Verstraete is hoogleraar historische pedagogiek aan de KU Leuven. Hij is daarnaast ook curator van het Leuvense DisABILITY Filmfestival.

Schmidt, Jan
Jan Schmidt is a historian of modern and contemporary Japan at KU Leuven, focusing on political and media history, and Head of the Japanese Studies Research Group.

Verpoest, Luc
Luc Verpoest is emeritus professor at KU Leuven where he has been teaching architectural history and theory and history of heritage conservation. He is still publishing in these particular research fields.

Uyttenhove, Pieter
Pieter Uyttenhove is associate professor of history and theory of urbanism at Ghent University.

Engelen, Leen
Leen Engelen is historian of media and visual culture at LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven and president of the International Association for Media and History.