Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, Economies, and International Relations, 18th-20th c.

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Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, Economies, and International Relations, 18th-20th c.

Veranstalter
Ute Planert, University of Toronto/Universität Wuppertal; James Retallack, University of Toronto
Veranstaltungsort
University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada
Ort
Toronto
Land
Canada
Vom - Bis
03.05.2013 - 04.05.2013
Website
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~retallac/conference/
Von
Ute Planert, University of Toronto/Universität Wuppertal

The study of war and warfare through the centuries has generated increasing scholarly attention over the last fifteen years. In the resulting literature, historians have tended to focus on pre-war settings, war experiences, and the influence of war memories on national identities. Despite the vibrancy of comparative and transnational history, it is only recently that scholars have discovered the study of post-war epochs and times of reconstruction as rewarding fields of historical inquiry. While considerable work has been done on the American Civil War and the post-1945 period, other settings and other periods are still neglected. Cultural historians have yet to deal with the terms of peace-making and how they were negotiated. Economic issues and international relations deserve more attention too.

More often than not, wars between nation-states are accompanied or followed by internal conflict, social disruption, or even civil war. Thus post-war settings can be viewed as times of transition. States strive for economic reconstruction and social integration, but they also face struggles over the reallocation of domestic power and the redistribution of international influence. This conference considers domestic politics and foreign policy together. It does so by examining attempts to overcome internal conflict and devastation in the light of parallel efforts to (re)enter the international arena and reassess European and global power relations. Its premise is that distinct types of warfare, on the one hand, and diverging strategies for reconstruction and reconciliation, on the other, have together had immense impact on the shape of postwar societies. Examining postwar decades of reconstruction, from the Seven Years War to the 1950s, conference participants will also consider whether, and to what extent, postwar politics were influenced by losing or winning the previous war.

Five historical epochs are envisioned for special attention: the immediate aftermath of wars that ended in 1763, 1814/1815, 1861/1865/1866/1871, 1918, and 1945. Combining thematic and chronological approaches will facilitate a genuinely comparative analysis and will generate new insights in regional, national, and global contexts. Papers will focus on postwar reconstructions in Central Europe, Western Europe, and North America over almost two centuries. Besides economic reconstruction and diplomatic realignment, the themes of civil war, regionalism, nationalism, state-building, social stability, and reconciliation run through the geographical frames and historical eras to be considered.

Programm

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Convenors
Ute Planert (Wuppertal / Toronto)
James Retallack (Toronto)

Friday, May 3rd

Venue: Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2098, 100 St George St, Toronto

9:00 a.m.

Welcome

James Retallack (University of Toronto)
Werner Wnendt, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Canada, Ottawa
Randall Hansen, Director, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (University of Toronto)

Introduction

Ute Planert (Universität Wuppertal / University of Toronto)

9:45 - 11:45 a.m.

I A World in Upheaval, from the 1760s to the 1820s: The Germanies

Moderator: Ute Planert (Universität Wuppertal / University of Toronto)

The Habsburg Empire after 1763 and 1815: Restoration or Reconstruction?
Charles Ingrao (Purdue University)

Saxony’s Rétablissement after 1763
Robert Beachy (Goucher College)

Prussia after 1763, 1806, and 1815: Uncontested Success?
Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)

Identifying a Post-War Period and the German Confederation: Case Studies from the Hanseatic Cities, 1814-1830
Katherine Aaslestad (West Virginia University)

Comment: Margaret Lavinia Anderson (Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley)

12:00 a.m. Lunch Break

1:00–3:00 p.m.

II A World in Upheaval, 1760s to the 1820s: Europe, Britain, North America

Moderator: Adrian Shubert (York University)

Great Britain and the World after the Seven Years’ War
Julia Angster (Universität Mannheim)

North America after 1763: Indigenous Perspectives
Ulrike Kirchberger (Universität Bayreuth)

Losing an Empire, Re-Entering the Stage: France
Sven Externbrink (Universität Heidelberg / Universität Innsbruck)

New Perspectives on the Congress of Vienna: The Reorganization of Europe as a “Subject of Domestic Policy”
Reinhard Stauber (Universität Klagenfurt)

Comment: Ute Planert (Universität Wuppertal / University of Toronto)

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

III Civil and Uncivil Wars: From the 1860s to the 1940s

Moderator: Deborah Neill (York University)

U.S. Reconstruction, Republicanism and Imperial Rivalries in the Caribbean after 1865
Christopher Wilkins (William Jewell College)

The Civil War in France, Alsace-Lorraine, and Postwar Reconstruction in the 1870s
Elizabeth Vlossak (Brock University)

The International Red Cross, the League of Nations, and Humanitarian Assistance Regimes, 1918-1939
Kimberly Lowe (Yale University)

After the Spanish Civil War: Dictatorship and Reconstruction
Adrian Shubert (York University)

Comment: Roger Chickering (Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University)
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Friday evening, May 3rd

Venue: Hart House Debates Room, 2nd floor, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto

6:00 p.m. Keynote Address: “Five Postwar Orders, 1763-1945”
James J. Sheehan, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

7:15 p.m. Reception
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Saturday, May 4th

Venue: Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Department of History,
Sidney Smith Hall, Rm. 2098, 100 St George St, Toronto

9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

IV Central Europe and its Borderlands

Moderator: Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto)

German State-Building in Occupied Poland: An Episode in Postwar Reconstruction, 1915-1918
Jesse Kauffman (Eastern Michigan University)

Foundation Massacres and Shatterzones: Violence and the Foundation of the Weimar Republic
Mark Jones (University College Dublin)

Local Worlds and Reconstruction: The Case of Cologne after 1945
Jeremy DeWaal (Vanderbilt University)

Reconstruction and Representation: Democratizing Postwar Germany after 1945
Jörg Echternkamp (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam / Universität Halle)

Comment: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto)

11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

V Empires and Economies: A New International Order After Total War?

Moderator: Ute Planert (Universität Wuppertal / University of Toronto

The End of Empires and the Triumph of the Nation State? 1918 and the New International Order
Jörn Leonhard (Universität Freiburg / Harvard University)

The Making and Undoing of the French Union: The Impact of the Second World War on France’s Empire
Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto)

Domestic Growth and External Equilibrium: The Early Years of Transatlantic Economic Integration
Simone Selva (German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.)

Comment: Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto)

1:00 p.m. Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

VI Closing Roundtable

Moderator: James Retallack

Katherine Aaslestad
Roger Chickering
Jörn Leonhard
James J. Sheehan

Registration & Contact gavin.wiens@utoronto.ca / evan.dokos@mail.utoronto.ca

Kontakt

Gavin Wiens

University of Toronto

gavin.wiens@utoronto.ca

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~retallac/conference/
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