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Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany
Av Katie Sutton
Inbunden, 2011
1979 kr
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Throughout the Weimar period the so-called “masculinization of woman” was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing female ideal, and fed into wider debates concerning the health and fertility of the German “race” following the …
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany
Häftad, 2011
467 kr
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Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesiastical and political concerns were heightened by cultural anxieties of a modernity in crisis. Based …
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Häftad, 2011
605 kr
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"This narrative of the rise and repeated adaptation of the German environmental movement to a variety of social and political contexts is a fascinating one...Ultimately, Markham's sociological analysis of German nature protection organizations proves readable and engaging. He makes significant …
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany
Av Mike Dennis, Norman LaPorte
Inbunden, 2011
1979 kr
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Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews, ‘guest’ workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their …
Banned in Berlin
Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Häftad, 2012
543 kr
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Imperial Germany’s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in literary life that was broader than that of …
Surplus Woman
Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage …
Fragmented Fatherland
Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
Inbunden, 2013
1979 kr
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1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of …
Question of Priorities
Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany
Inbunden, 1996
1979 kr
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Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. With her study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on German social and …
Osthandel and Ostpolitik
German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer
Inbunden, 1997
2545 kr
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Eclipsed by the scope of the Atlantic economy, obscured by Anglo-German rivalry, and nearly destroyed by the post-1945 division of Europe, the flow of goods across East Central Europe has been, nonetheless, an immensely significant pattern of European economic exchange. For Germany, the Osthandel …
From Recovery to Catastrophe
Municipal Stabilization and Political Crisis
Inbunden, 1998
1916 kr
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Historians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the struggle to revise reparations and control hyperinflation. Focusing primarily on economic aspects is not sufficient, however, the author argues; the financial burden of …
Question of Priorities
Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany
Häftad, 1996
526 kr
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Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. With her study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on German social and …
Poems in Steel
National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn
Av Kees Gispen
Inbunden, 2001
2186 kr
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The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, political, …
Recasting West German Elites
Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse between Nazism and Democracy, 1945-1955
Inbunden, 2003
1979 kr
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The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in the …
Ambivalent Alliance
Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966
Inbunden, 2003
1916 kr
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Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply: "The alliance with the free West." Scholars have echoed his assessment, citing the Federal Republic of Germany's successful integration into the American-led West …
Politics of Education
Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany
Inbunden, 2002
1808 kr
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Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more than a …
Politics of Education
Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany
Häftad, 2004
512 kr
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Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent. Far more than a …
Poems in Steel
National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn
Av Kees Gispen
Häftad, 2002
605 kr
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The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, political, …
'Aryanisation' in Hamburg
The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany
Av Frank Bajohr
Inbunden, 2002
1880 kr
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Much has been written about Nazi anti-Jewish policies, about atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the behavior of non-Jewish Germans. This book, published to wide acclaim in its original edition, shows how many …
'Aryanisation' in Hamburg
The Economic Exclusion of Jews and the Confiscation of their Property in Nazi Germany
Av Frank Bajohr
Häftad, 2002
511 kr
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Much has been written about Nazi anti-Jewish policies, about atrocities of the Wehrmacht, and about the life of the Jews during the Third Reich. However, relatively little is known about the behavior of non-Jewish Germans. This book, published to wide acclaim in its original edition, shows how many …
Ambivalent Alliance
Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966
Häftad, 2004
511 kr
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Whenever asked to name his most significant accomplishment as West Germany's first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer would invariably reply: "The alliance with the free West." Scholars have echoed his assessment, citing the Federal Republic of Germany's successful integration into the American-led West …
Sex, Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll
Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany
Inbunden, 2008
1979 kr
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A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a …
Crisis of the German Left
The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy
Inbunden, 2005
1921 kr
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Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). …
'Conservative Revolutionaries'
The Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change in the 1990s
Inbunden, 2004
1861 kr
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During the forty years of division, the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany were the only organizations to retain strong ties and organizational structures: they embodied continuity in a country marked by discontinuity. As such, the churches were both expected to undergo smooth and rapid …
Citizens and Aliens
Foreigners and the Law in Britain and German States 1789-1870
Inbunden, 2000
1768 kr
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From the last decade of the 18th century, European states began to define nationality more rigorously. Regulations covering matters as diverse as passports, residence permits, taxes, and admission to university examinations made clear that nationality mattered more than rank. Drawing on the files …
Creation of the Modern German Army
General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930
Inbunden, 2004
1936 kr
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Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War and the First Head of the Army Command in the Weimar Republic. Though less well known than his great rival, …
Nazism in Central Germany
The Brownshirts in 'Red' Saxony
Av Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann
Inbunden, 1999
1979 kr
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Most studies on the spread of Nazism in German society before and after 1933 concentrate on the country's western parts. As a result, so the author claims, our overall picture of the situation has been distorted since the eastern areas contained a substantial portion of the population. Neglecting …
Death in East Germany, 1945-1990
Inbunden, 2013
1916 kr
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As the first historical study of East Germany‘s sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist …
State and Minorities in Communist East Germany
Av Mike Dennis, Norman LaPorte
Häftad, 2013
543 kr
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Based on interviews and the voluminous materials in the archives of the SED, the Stasi and central and regional authorities, this volume focuses on several contrasting minorities (Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, 'guest' workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans, punks, and skinheads) and their …
Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany
Av Katie Sutton
Häftad, 2013
543 kr
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Throughout the Weimar period the so-called “masculinization of woman” was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing female ideal, and fed into wider debates concerning the health and fertility of the German “race” following the …
Sex and Control
Venereal Disease, Colonial Physicians, and Indigenous Agency in German Colonialism, 1884-1914
Inbunden, 2015
1916 kr
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In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany’s colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to …
