Visions of Europe in the Resistance : figures, projects, networks, ideals / Robert Belot and Daniela Preda (eds.)

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Cover -- Series Information -- Copyrifght Information -- Table of contents -- Introduction (Robert Belot, Daniela Preda) -- Part 1 The European idea in the national Resistances -- Above Hatred and beyond Borders: The French Resistance's gradual realization of the need to make Europe (Robert Belot) -- The idea of Europe in the German Resistance (Wilfried Loth) -- Visions de l'Europe d'après-guerre par la Résistance en Belgique et aux Pays-Bas occupés 1939-1945 (Thierry Grosbois) -- The European Federalist network in Switzerland during World War II (Francesca Pozzoli) -- La Résistance de la Rose blanche et l'Europe (Umberto Lodovici) -- Ursula Hirschmann: a European federalist with no homeland (Silvana Boccanfuso) -- The Kreisauer Kreis' plans for Europe (Stefano Dell'Acqua) -- Alexandre Marc's battle for a new order. French Fédératisme on the eve of European federalism (1928-1942) (Catherine Préviti) -- Part 2 The European idea in the Italian Resistance -- The Partito d'Azione's idea of Europe (Andrea Becherucci) -- The national liberation struggle and the idea of Europe in Italian catholic circles (Giovanni Battista Varnier) -- The idea of Europe among the Republicans (Maurizio Ridolfi) -- The Italian liberal Europeanists and the vision of a federal Europe (Umberto Morelli) -- The idea of Europe in the Italian Resistance: the birth of the movements for European unity (Sergio Pistone) -- The words of Ventotene. A historical-critical analysis of the Ventotene Manifesto (Antonella Braga) -- Italian military in the war of Resistance in Yugoslavia after the 8 September 1943 armistice (Maria Teresa Giusti) -- European unity in the underground press of the Italian Resistance (Raffaella Cinquanta) -- Part 3 The European idea among the exiles.

Silvio Trentin's idea of Europe in the Resistance movement in France and Italy (1940-1944) (Corrado Malandrino) -- Rossi, Spinelli and the idea of Europe among Italian refugees in Switzerland (Alfredo Canavero) -- Hilda Monte and the unity of Europe. Resistance, solidarity and planning in exile, 1933-1945 (Andreas Wilkens) -- Un projet d'Europe centrale conçu à Londres entre diplomates et militaires polonais et tchécoslovaques : les origines d'un échec, 1940-1941 (Lubor Jílek) -- Visions of post-war Europe. A European in America: Richard Count Coudenhove-Kalergi in exile (Martyn Bond) -- Jean Monnet's network in the United States (Maria Eleonora Guasconi) -- L'Europe et le fédéralisme vus du côté des antifascistes européens en Amérique latine (années 1930 et 1940) (Jean-Francis Billion) -- Part 4 The European idea in the Resistance: transnational aspects -- Ecumenism, Resistance, European unity and international relations: a convergence between Willem A. Visser 't Hooft and John Foster Dulles (Filippo Maria Giordano) -- The Geneva meetings and the international federalist declaration of the European Resistance movements (Paolo Caraffini) -- The Resistance in the Alpine World and the Chivasso Charter (Fabio Zucca) -- European constitutional projects during World War II and the immediate post-war period (Daniela Preda) -- Series index.

By interpreting the changes that the Second World War generated, the Europeanists and federalist forerunners of the times mentioned in this volume were able to identify, ahead of their time, the basis for the construction of the new united Europe and, with it, a new peaceful and democratic international order.