The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1946

Conway, Martin (Editor)/ Romijn, Peter (Editor)/ Carter, Erica (Contributor)/ Conway, Martin (Contributor)/ Dahl, Hans Fredrik (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1845208218 / ISBN 13: 9781845208219

Editore: Berg Pub Ltd, 2008

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Titolo: The War for Legitimacy in Politics and ...

Casa editrice: Berg Pub Ltd

Data di pubblicazione: 2008

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Brand New

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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 important contribution to the study of the political culture of European history from the 1930s to the 1950s, this volume will be essential reading for both political scientists and twentieth-century historians.

Informazioni sugli autori:

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

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