Life after death : approaches to a cultural and social history during the 1940s and 1950s /

This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bessel, Richard, Schumann, Dirk
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Temas:
1900-1999
Social change > Europe > History > 20th century.
Social change > Germany (West) > History > 20th century.
Social conflict > Europe > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Europe.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Germany (West)
Changement social > Europe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Changement social > Allemagne (Ouest) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Conflits sociaux > Europe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Aspect psychologique.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 > Europe.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 > Allemagne (Ouest)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Ethnic relations
Psychological aspects
Social change
Social conflict
Social conditions
Europe > Social conditions > 20th century.
Germany > Social conditions > 20th century.
Europe > Ethnic relations.
Germany (West) > Ethnic relations.
Europe > Relations interethniques.
Europe > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Allemagne > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Allemagne (Ouest) > Relations interethniques.
Europe
Germany
Germany (West)
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe / Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and World War II: can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society? / Alice Förster, Birgit Beck
  • Between pain and silence: remembering the victims of violence in Germany after 1949 / Sabine Behrenbeck
  • Paths of normalization after the persecution of the Jews: the Netherlands, France and West Germany in the 1950s / Ido de Haan
  • Trauma, memory, and motherhood: Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann
  • Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945 / Andrea Petö
  • "Going home": the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war / Joanna Bourke
  • Desperately seeking normality: sex and marriage in the wake of the war / Dagmar Herzog
  • Family life and "normality" in postwar British culture / Pat Thane
  • Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in the 1950s / Michael Wildt
  • "Strengthened and purified through ordeal by fire": ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe / Damion Van Melis
  • The nationalization of victimhood: selective violence and national grief in western Europe, 1940-1960 / Pieter Lagrou
  • Italy after fascism: the predicament of dominant narratives / Donald Sassoon
  • The politics of post-fascist aesthetics: 1950s West and East German industrial design / Paul Betts
  • Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? / Alon Confino.

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