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Author |
: Heide Fehrenbach |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1571811079 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781571811073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations by : Heide Fehrenbach
American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that explores the links between Americanization and modernity in Western Europe and Japan. In considering the impact of products and images ranging from movies and music to fashion and architecture, a multi-disciplinary group of contributors asks how American culture has been employed internationally in the articulation of postwar identities - be they national or subnational, socially sanctioned or socially transgressive. Their essays on France, Italy, Germany and Japan move beyond the simple paradigms of colonization and democratic modernization, yet retain a sensitivity to the asymmetries in the postwar power relationships between these countries and the United States. An extensive introduction historically locates changing interpretations of American influences abroad and suggests the problems and promises of "Americanization" as an analytical tool. Its comparative focus and interdisciplinary scope will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of cold war and post-cold war history.
Author |
: Heide Fehrenbach |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1999-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785330049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785330047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transactions, Transgressions, Transformation by : Heide Fehrenbach
American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that explores the links between Americanization and modernity in Western Europe and Japan. In considering the impact of products and images ranging from movies and music to fashion and architecture, a multi-disciplinary group of contributors asks how American culture has been employed internationally in the articulation of postwar identities - be they national or subnational,socially sanctioned or socially transgressive. Their essays on France, Italy, Germany and Japan move beyond the simple paradigms of colonization and democratic modernization, yet retain a sensitivity to the asymmetries in the postwar power relationships between these countries and the United States. An extensive introduction historically locates changing interpretations of American influences abroad and suggests the problems and promises of "Americanization" as an analytical tool. Its comparative focus and interdisciplinary scope will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of cold war and post-cold war history.
Author |
: Esther von Richthofen |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1845454588 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781845454586 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bringing Culture to the Masses by : Esther von Richthofen
This text explores how cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, through attempts to dictate the way people spent their free time. It shows how people's cultural life in the GDR developed a dynamic of its own.
Author |
: Ben Lieberman |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1998-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789205886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789205883 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Recovery to Catastrophe by : Ben Lieberman
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 recovery was only one of several major causes of reaction against the republic. Drawing on material from major German cities, he is able to trace the emergence of strong local activism and of comprehensive and functional policies of recovery on the municipal level which enjoyed broad political backing. Ironically, these same programs that created consensus also contained the potential for destabilization: they unleashed intense debate over the needs of the consumersand the purpose and extent of public spending, and with that of government intervention more generally, which accelerated the fragmentation of bourgeois politics, leading to the final destruction of the Weimar Republic.
Author |
: Klemens von Klemperer |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845459444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 184545944X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voyage Through the Twentieth Century by : Klemens von Klemperer
The account of the author’s life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality that seemed fragmented, and in their shared thirst for knowledge and commitment to ideas they searched for cohesiveness among the glittering, holistic ideologies and movements of the twenties and thirties. The author’s scholarly work on the German Resistance to Hitler revealed to him those who maintained dignity and courage in times of peril and despair, which became for him a life’s pursuit. This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the “other” Germany—the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.
Author |
: Jon Berndt Olsen |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2017-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785335020 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785335022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tailoring Truth by : Jon Berndt Olsen
By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to legitimize its rule. It demonstrates that the regime’s approach to memory politics was not stagnant, but rather evolved over time to meet different demands and potential threats to its legitimacy. Ultimately the party found it increasingly difficult to control the public portrayal of the past, and some dissidents were able to turn the party’s memory politics against the state to challenge its claims of moral authority.
Author |
: Alon Confino |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1845453972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781845453978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Mass Death and Individual Loss by : Alon Confino
"This volume explores the tension between mass death and individual loss by linking long-term patterns of mourning, burial, and grief with the short-term cataclysmic violence unleashed by two world wars. How various "cultures of death" shaped the broader historical relationship between the living and the dead in modern Germany is the main concern of this book. It contributes to a history of death in Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Mary Fulbrook |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1845454359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781845454357 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979 by : Mary Fulbrook
The communist German Democratic Republic was founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany. This book looks at its history and how people came to terms with their new lives behind the Wall. In the 1960s and 1970s, a fragile stability emerged characterized by 'consumer socialism', international recognition and détente. Growing participation in the micro-structures of power, and conformity to the unwritten rules of an increasingly predictable system, suggest increasing accommodation to dominant norms and conceptions of socialist 'normality.' These essays explore the ways in which lower-level functionaries and people at the grass roots contributed to the formation and transformation of the GDR ? from industry and agriculture, through popular sport and cultural life, to the passage of generations and varieties of social experience.
Author |
: Michael Nolan |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2004-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782386605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782386602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Inverted Mirror by : Michael Nolan
It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as "arch enemies." And yet, for well over a century, these two countries waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. This study explores a particularly virulent phase during which each of these two nations projected certain assumptions about national character onto the other - distorted images, motivated by antipathy, fear, and envy, which contributed to the growing hostility between the two countries in the years before the First World War. Most remarkably, as the author discovered, the qualities each country ascribed to its chief adversary appeared to be exaggerated or negative versions of precisely those qualities that it perceived to be lacking or inadequate in itself. Moreover, banishing undesirable traits and projecting them onto another people was also an essential step in the consolidation of national identity. As such, it established a pattern that has become all too familiar to students of nationalism and xenophobia in recent decades. This study shows that antagonism between states is not a fact of nature but socially constructed.
Author |
: Wilma Iggers |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2006-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845451387 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845451384 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Two Lives in Uncertain Times by : Wilma Iggers
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly not only to do research but also to further reconciliation between Jews and Germans, while at the same time in their scholarly work contributing to a critical confrontation with the German past. After overcoming first apprehensions, they soon felt Göttingen to be their second home, while maintaining their close involvements in America. After 1966 they frequently visited East Germany and Czechslovakia in an attempt to build bridges in the midst of the Cold War. The book relates their very different experiences of childhood and adolescence and then their lives together over almost six decades during which they endeavored to combine their roles as parents and scholars with their social and political engagements. In many ways this is not merely a dual biography but a history of changing conditions in America and Central Europe during turbulent times.