Rewriting German history : new perspectives on modern Germany
"Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for s...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,
2015
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| Schlagworte: | Political culture Collective memory Group identity Deutschland Geschichtsschreibung Kollektives Gedächtnis Geschichte 1900-2000 Nationalbewusstsein Geschichte 1840-1989 Geschichte 1800-2015 |
| Umfang: | xxiii, 336 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contents ; 1. Crossing the North Sea – is there a British approach to German history? Geoff Eley
- PART I THE LOCAL NATION ; 2. Cologne Cathedral as an international monument Astrid Swenson
- 3. Germany's boundaries and the politics of defeat: Heligoland, 1918-1933 Jan Rüger
- 4. Cosmopolitan highlanders: region and nation in Anglo-German encounters in the Himalayas, 1903-1945 Tom Neuhaus
- 5. The 'cleansing' of culture in Germany's lost East after the Second world war Hugo Service
- 6. Traitors, heroes, martyrs, victims? Veterans of Nazi "forced conscription" from Alsace and Moselle Elizabeth Vlossak
- PART II. CULTURE AND SOCIETY ; 7. The age of assassination: monarchy and nation in nineteenth-century Europe Rachel G. Hoffman
- 8. Finding the female self: women's autonomy, marriage and social change in nineteenth-century Germany Lynn Abrams
- 9. Beasts in human clothing? Pimps, moral panics, and the German underworld Victoria Harris
- 10. Myth-making in Hitler's shadow: the transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945$Bernhard Fulda ; 11. East German perspectives on continuity and change across the caesura of 1989 Hester Vaizey
- PART III. THE PECULIARITIES OF NAZI GERMANY ; 12. Justifying genocide in Weimar Germany: the Armenian genocide, German nationalists, and assassinated young Turks, 1919-1923 Stefan Ihrig
- 13. Interwar Britain and German racial theory Bradley W. Hart
- 14. The cultivation of Mussolini's image in Weimar and Nazi Germany Christian Goeschel
- 15. Dictators for sale: the commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Bianca Gaudenzi
- 16. Veiled survivors: Jews, Roma and Muslims in the years of the Holocaust David Motadel
- 167. The Nazi concentration camps in international context: comparisons and connections Nikolaus Wachsmann.