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Author | : Astrid M. Eckert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190690054 |
Download West Germany and the Iron Curtain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of the Federal Republic and the German re-unification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. The book is the first environmental history of the Iron Curtain.
Author | : Maria Höhn |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2003-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807860328 |
Download GIs and Fräuleins Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in morality that accompanied the troops to the provinces. Conservatives condemned the jazz clubs and striptease parlors that Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe opened to cater to the troops, and they expressed scorn toward the German women who eagerly pursued white and black American GIs. While most Germans rejected the conservative effort to punish as prostitutes all women who associated with American GIs, they vilified the sexual relationships between African American men and German women. Hohn demonstrates that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were always debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, it also brought Jim Crow.
Author | : Frank Bösch |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2018-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785339265 |
Download A History Shared and Divided Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Riccardo Bavaj |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2017-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785335049 |
Download Germany and 'The West' Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
Author | : Mathilde Von Bulow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107088593 |
Download West Germany, Cold War Europe and the Algerian War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examining the clandestine and subversive activities of Algerian nationalists in West Germany and Europe, Mathilde Von Bulow sheds new light on the extent to which FLN activities and French counter-measures impacted the conflict in Algeria and the politics of the global Cold War.
Author | : Robert G. Moeller |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780472066483 |
Download West Germany Under Construction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Collects important recent essays in a critical reexamination of the Federal Republic's early history
Author | : Larry Frohman |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2020-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1805393618 |
Download The Politics of Personal Information Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set of distinctly postindustrial social conflicts centered on the use of personal information as a means of social governance in the welfare state. Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis, this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.
Author | : Karrin Hanshew |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107017378 |
Download Terror and Democracy in West Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Karrin Hanshew examines West German responses to 1970s terrorism to explain why the experience had lasting significance for German politics and society.
Author | : Philip Zelikow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674353251 |
Download Germany Unified and Europe Transformed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work provides an analysis of the moves and manoeuvres that brought an end to the Cold War division of Europe. Coverage includes discussion of the opening of the Berlin Wall and a study of the relationship between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and reform Communist leader, Hans Modrow.
Author | : Michael L. Hughes |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469619539 |
Download Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
World War II and its aftermath brought devastating material losses to millions of West Germans. Military action destroyed homes, businesses, and personal possessions; East European governments expelled 15 million ethnic Germans from their ancestral homes; and currency reform virtually wiped out many Germans' hard-earned savings. These "war damaged" individuals, well over one-third of the West German population, vehemently demanded compensation at the expense of those who had not suffered losses, to be financed through capital levies on surviving private property. Michael Hughes offers the first comprehensive study of West Germany's efforts to redistribute the costs of war and defeat among its citizenry. The debate over a Lastenausgleich (a balancing out of burdens) generated thousands of documents in which West Germans articulated deeply held beliefs about social justice, economic rationality, and political legitimacy. Hughes uses these sources to trace important changes in German society since 1918, illuminating the process by which West Germans, who had rejected liberal democracy in favor of Nazi dictatorship in the 1930s, came to accept the social-market economy and parliamentary democracy of the 1950s.