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The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1938-1948 (Occupation in Europe)
Professor Martin Conway (Ed.)
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The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that turbulent period in Europe's twentieth-century history, a wide variety of contenders for power emerged, each of which claimed to possess the right to rule.Exploring political discourse, state propaganda, and high and low culture, the book argues that legitimacy lay not with rulers, and still less in the barrel of a gun, but in the values behind differing approaches to "good" government. An ... Read more
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that turbulent period in Europe's twentieth-century history, a wide variety of contenders for power emerged, each of which claimed to possess the right to rule.Exploring political discourse, state propaganda, and high and low culture, the book argues that legitimacy lay not with rulers, and still less in the barrel of a gun, but in the values behind differing approaches to "good" government. An ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845208219
SKU
V9781845208219
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About Professor Martin Conway (Ed.)
Martin Conway is a Fellow in History at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Peter Romijn is Head of Research at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam, and a Professor at the University of Amsterdam
Reviews for The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1938-1948 (Occupation in Europe)
A sustained, thoughtful and thought-provoking collective reflection on the political distinctiveness of the period between the mid-1930s and the transition to peacetime after the Second World War.
English Historical Review, vol 127, no 529, December 2012
English Historical Review, vol 127, no 529, December 2012