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The Great Agrarian Conquest: the colonial reshaping of a rural world
Social History Pub Date : 2020-04-02 , DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2020.1732141
Benjamin Siegel 1
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Lionel Brett’s A Broken Wave, and has also been the subject of recent scholarship (see, for example, O. Saumarez Smith, ‘The inner city crisis and the end of urban modernism in 1970s Britain’, Twentieth Century British History, 27, 4, 2016). Although it occurred in the later postwar period, this retreat from modernist redevelopment provides the context for many of the later responses of redevelopment in the period Flinn writes about. Historicizing these responses might have given Flinn scope to critique them. But these are mere quibbles. Flinn’s book is a fascinating and nuanced account of urban reconstruction in the immediate postwar years, based on a close reading of an astonishingly broad range of source material. It is especially valuable for its de-centring of the architect. Whilst the architect and the planner have tended to loom large in accounts of this period, Flinn demonstrates persuasively how significant the conjunction of other individuals, bureaucracies and forces was in shaping the outcomes of reconstruction in the immediate postwar period. For this reason, it will be a valuable resource not only to architectural historians, but also to political historians keen to understand the governing agendas of the first postwar years. Her book is especially valuable for the emphasis it places on the private sphere – local freeholders, ratepayers, private development companies – which tend to be sidelined in conventional political histories of the early postwar years. In this she demonstrates the continuities that run throughout the postwar years with both the period before and the supposedly highly changed post-1979 neoliberal era of today.

中文翻译:

大农业征服:农村世界的殖民重塑

莱昂内尔·布雷特 (Lionel Brett) 的《破碎的浪潮》(A Broken Wave) 也是近期学术研究的主题(例如,参见 O. Saumarez Smith,“1970 年代英国的内城危机和城市现代主义的终结”,二十世纪英国历史,27、4 , 2016)。尽管它发生在战后后期,但这种现代主义重建的撤退为弗林所写的那个时期的许多重建反应提供了背景。将这些反应历史化可能会给 Flinn 批评它们的空间。但这些都只是吹毛求疵。弗林的书是对战后初期城市重建的引人入胜且细致入微的描述,它基于对范围极其广泛的原始材料的仔细阅读。它对架构师的去中心化尤其有价值。虽然建筑师和规划师在这一时期的叙述中往往显得尤为突出,但弗林却令人信服地证明了其他个人、官僚机构和力量的结合在塑造战后重建成果方面的重要性。出于这个原因,它不仅对建筑历史学家来说都是宝贵的资源,而且对渴望了解战后最初几年的管理议程的政治历史学家来说也是一种宝贵的资源。她的书特别有价值,因为它强调私人领域——当地的自由持有者、纳税人、私人开发公司——这些在战后早期的传统政治历史中往往被边缘化。
更新日期:2020-04-02
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