Planning, Production and Reconstruction in Postwar Europe, Fourth Balzan Workshop, Birkbeck College, London, 26 June 2007

This was the fourth and final workshop of the Balzan Project on the history of European reconstruction after World War Two. The previous workshops had compared reconstruction in Western and Eastern Europe and reconstruction after World War One with reconstruction after World War Two, and had focused on the movement of populations and their relief and rehabilitation.1 This one focused on planning, particularly industrial, agricultural and urban planning, within the context of immediate postwar European reconstruction. Situated at the fruitful intersection between cultural and economic history, the papers permitted investigation of a wide range of themes, including clashing ideologies, epistemic communities and continuities from the Third Reich. Comments and discussions revealed that crucial areas still need to be better understood in relation to postwar planning, including the national arms industries, the relationship to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and, of course, ideological divides between East and West. John R....

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