Post-war reconstruction in Europe : international perspectives, 1945-1949 / edited by Mark Mazower, Jessica Reinisch, and David Feldman.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

367 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm.

"The essays presented here ... have their origins in a conference on Reconstruction in post-war Europe held at Birkbeck, University of London in June 2008."-- p. [9].

1. Periodization. Reconstruction : the historiographical issues / Mark Mazower ; War, reconstruction, and the nationalization of Britain, 1939-1951 / David Edgerton ; Reassessing the moral economy of post-war reconstruction : the terms of the West German settlement in 1952 / Adam Tooze -- 2. Cold War. Reconstruction in East-Central Europe : clearing the rubble of Cold War politics / Holly Case ; The Soviet Union after 1945 : economic recovery and political repression / Mark Harrison ; Stalin and the European communities after World War Two (1943-1948) / Silvio Pons -- 3. Monopoly of force. Establishing order in post-war Eastern Germany / Richard Bessel ; At the borders of force : violence, refugees, and the reconfiguration of the Yugoslav and Italian states / Pamela Ballinger ; Regaining the monopoly of force : agents of the state shooting fugitives in and around Belgium, 1940-1950 / Pieter Lagrou -- 4. Empire. Reconstructing empire in British and French Africa / Frederick Cooper ; Reconstructing Europe through rejuvenating empire : the British, French, and Dutch experiences compared / Nicholas J. White ; Reconstructing the 'plural society' : Asian migration between empire and nation, 1940-1948 / Sunil Amrith -- 5. Internationalism. Internationalism in relief : the birth (and death) of UNRRA / Jessica Reinisch ; The multiple contexts of Bretton Woods / Harold James ; 'A blessing in disguise' : reconstructing international relations through atomic energy, 1945-1948 / Waqar Zaidi ; 'A human treasure' : Europe's displaced children between nationalism and internationalism / Tara Zahra.

Includes bibliographical references and index.