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Fallen Elites : the Military Other in Post-Unification Germany.

Military officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised as heroes are redefined as villains. In Fallen Elites, Andrew Bickford examines how states make soldi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bickford, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Prologue:The Anthropologist Who Came In from the Cold; Abbreviations and Terms; Part One. Becoming Militarized; My Brother, My Enemy; 1. The Military Imaginary: Soldiers, Myths, and States; 2. Emotions, Generations, and Death Cults: Militarization and the Creation of Socialist Military Personalities; 3. Coming of Age in the NVA: The Master Narratives of Militarization; Part Two. Being Militarized; 4. The Writing on the Wall:The NVA Surrenders; 5. A War of Signs, Images, and Memories: German Militaries in the Cold War and Unification. 
505 8 |a 6. "Unification Has Ruined My Life": The Political Economy of the Military Other7. As Germans Among Germans: Life in the Kameradschaft; 8. "We're the Jews of the New Germany": Heroic Victimhood, Fallen Elites, and the Slipperiness of History and Memory; 9. Death and Allegiance: Toward an Anthropology of Soldiering; Notes; Works Cited; Index. 
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