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  1. Revival After the Great War : Rebuild, Remember, Repair, Reform
    Contributor: Verpoest, Luc (Publisher); engelen, leen (Publisher); Heynickx, Rajesh (Publisher); Schmidt, Jan (Publisher); Uyttenhove, Pieter (Publisher); Verstraete, Pieter (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Leuven University Press, Leuven

    In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of... more

     

    In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Verpoest, Luc (Publisher); engelen, leen (Publisher); Heynickx, Rajesh (Publisher); Schmidt, Jan (Publisher); Uyttenhove, Pieter (Publisher); Verstraete, Pieter (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789461663542
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    Subjects: First World War; Conservation, restoration & care of artworks; History of architecture
    Other subjects: first world war; 1920s; post-war reform; post-war recovery; remembrance; post-war reconstruction; history of disability; history of urbanism; architectural history; history of education
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (380 p.)
  2. Fake news in oorlogstijd : Duitse mediamanipulatie en de Flamenpolitik (1914-1915)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Leuven University Press, Leuven

    During the First World War, the German occupier tried to split Belgium internally. This was done by pursuing a Flamenpolitik, a policy aimed at scaring the Flemish, or at least the Flemish movement, against Belgium. That worked, because a small... more

     

    During the First World War, the German occupier tried to split Belgium internally. This was done by pursuing a Flamenpolitik, a policy aimed at scaring the Flemish, or at least the Flemish movement, against Belgium. That worked, because a small number of Flemish supporters, the so-called activists, did indeed collaborate. From the late summer of 1914, Berlin in the occupied country would incessantly bombard the Flemish movement with a large-scale media campaign. The German services, supported by their Austrian allies, mainly made use of pamphlets and the written press, not only in Belgium but also in the neutral Netherlands. In the summer of 1915 activism was a fact: an anti-Belgian Flemish nationalism, the consequences of which have been felt to date, had seen the light of day. The propaganda underlying it was so ingenious and clever that it not only convinced contemporaries, but still misleads historians even more than a century later. It is a fine example of “fake news” avant la lettre. Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog probeerde de Duitse bezetter België intern te splijten. Dat gebeurde door het voeren van een Flamenpolitik, een beleid dat erop gericht was de Vlamingen of in elk geval de Vlaamse beweging in het harnas te jagen tegen België. Dat lukte, want een klein deel Vlaamsgezinden, de zogenaamde activisten, collaboreerde inderdaad. Vanaf de nazomer van 1914 zou Berlijn in het bezette land de Vlaamse beweging onophoudelijk bestoken met een grootscheepse mediacampagne. De Duitse diensten, gesteund door hun Oostenrijkse bondgenoten, maakten daarbij vooral gebruik van vlugschriften en de geschreven pers, niet alleen in België maar ook in het neutrale Nederland. In de zomer van 1915 was het activisme een feit: een anti-Belgisch Vlaams-nationalisme, waarvan de gevolgen tot op heden voelbaar zijn, had het daglicht gezien. De propaganda die eraan ten grondslag lag was zó vernuftig en ingenieus dat ze niet alleen tijdgenoten overtuigde, maar zelfs meer dan een eeuw later nog steeds historici misleidt. Het is een mooi staaltje van “fake news” avant la lettre.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789461663788; 9789462702707; 9789461663795
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    Subjects: Local history; First World War; Media studies
    Other subjects: Flamenpolitik;Propaganda;Fake news;Activisme;Eerste Wereldoorlog;Nationalisme;Groot-Nederland;Frontbeweging;Völkisch; first world war
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (392 p.)