Author : Hope M. Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107049318
A revelatory history of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall and its significance in defining contemporary German national identity.
Author : Jeffrey M. Peck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813537238
"This book was written for an American (Jewish) readership. But some chapters, especially the first two, address the non-specialist, while others, especially the last two, accommodate the expert. The work contains one theme and one thesis. The theme is simple and to be welcomed: Americans, and American Jews in particular, need to understand that Germany has changed and that its Jewish community is made up of more than just a few souls morbidly attached to blood-soaked soil. We are therefore introduced to Jewish writers, politicians and intellectuals; to Jews of Russian origin, German background and Israeli descent; and to the many issues facing today's German-Jewish community of 100,000 plus members. Peck discusses the role of the Holocaust in German and American political life. He relates how Russian Jews have begun to take over community institutions, revitalizing German Jewry especially in Berlin and the provinces. And he compares and contrasts the situation of Turks and Jews today, whom many Germans still perecive as foreign, no matter how acculturated they happen to be. All of this material is interesting, but not new"--Review from H-Net.
Author : Frank Bösch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1785339265
By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by economic crises, social and cultural changes, protest movements, and other phenomena so diffuse that they could hardly be contained by the Iron Curtain. Accordingly, A History Shared and Divided offers a collective portrait of the two Germanies that is both broad and deep. It brings together comprehensive thematic surveys by specialists in social history, media, education, the environment, and similar topics to assemble a monumental account of both nations from the crises of the 1970s to—and beyond—the reunification era.
Author : Felix Robin Schulz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782380140
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 cemetery culture such as issues of design, spatial layout, and commemorative practices; the propagation of cremation as a means of disposal; the wide-spread introduction of anonymous communal areas for the internment of urns; and the emergence of socialist and secular funeral rituals. The author analyses the manifold changes to the system of the disposal of the dead in East Germany—a society that not only had to negotiate the upheaval of military defeat but also urbanization, secularization, a communist regime, and a planned economy. Stressing a comparative approach, the book reveals surprising similarities to the development of Western countries but also highlights the intricate local variations within the GDR and sheds more light on the East German state and its society.
Author : Victor Grossman
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Faced with an accusation from the US Army's highest legal authority in 1952, Grossman left his unit stationed in Bavaria and swam the Danube to East Germany. He traces his childhood and experiences as a student, worker, and soldier; then describes life in his new home among a surprisingly large community of defectors. There is no index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Eric Burton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 3110623544
This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
Author : Christian F. Ostermann
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789639241572
"A detailed introductory essay to provide the necessary historical and political context precedes each part. The individual documents are introduced by short headnotes summarizing the contents and orienting the reader. A chronology, glossary and bibliography offer further background information."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jennifer A. Yoder
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
This study examines the problems of integrating East Germans into a political system that they did not create.
Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0471437670
Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER "A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." --Daily Telegraph (London) "Charts the ironies of Adenauer's complicated life. This is the story of a marathon man, but it is narrated at the pace of a sprinter and with the elegance of a hurdler."--The Times (London) "Lucid and engaging. This is a well-researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political."--The Herald (Glasgow) "A highly readable, thoroughly reliable, intelligently critical life-and-times. . . . This portrait does justice to a man who is often invoked as a prophet of a United States of Europe, but who was in truth the greatest of German patriots."--Literary Review (London) "Well-researched and admirably written . . . reveals Adenauer the man--with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance, and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning."--The Independent (London) THE LAST GREAT FRENCHMAN "Knowledgeable, lucid . . . the best English biography of de Gaulle."--The New York Times Book Review "Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book."--Daily Telegraph (London)
Author : David Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107198194
The collapse of political and economic order in World War One prompted Germany to turn to empire in Eastern Europe.
