Paul Betts - Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War

RUIN AND RENEWAL

A LSO BY P AUL B ETTS

Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic

The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design

The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History(co-editor)

Tito in Africa: Picturing Solidarity(co-editor)

Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe(co-editor)

Heritage in the Modern World: Historical Preservation in Global Perspective(co-editor)

Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedlnder and the Future of Holocaust Studies(co-editor)

Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany(co-editor)

Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics(co-editor)

Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History(co-editor)

Civilising Europe After the Second World War

Paul Betts

First published in Great Britain in 2020 by

Profile Books Ltd

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First published in the United States of America in 2020 by

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Copyright Paul Betts, 2020

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Parts of were published in The Polemics of Pity: British Photographs of Berlin, 19451947, in Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present, ed. Johannes Paulmann (Oxford/New York: Berghahn, 2018), 126150.

Parts of were published in Religion, Science and Cold War Anti-Communism: The 1949 Cardinal Mindszenty Show Trial, in Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe, ed. Paul Betts and Stephen A. Smith (London: Palgrave, 2016), 275307.

Parts of were published in Manners, Morality and Civilization: Reflections Postwar German Etiquette Books, in Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe, ed. Frank Biess and Robert Moeller (Oxford/New York: Berghahn, 2010), 196214

Parts of were published in Humanitys New Heritage: UNESCO and the Rewriting of World History, Past & Present228, no. 1 (August 2015): 249285, and The Warden of World Civilization: UNESCO and the Rescue of the Nubian Monuments, in Heritage in the Modern World, ed. Paul Betts and Corey Ross, Past & Present226, supplement 10 (2015): 100125.

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