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Between mass death and individual loss : the place of the dead in twentieth-century Germany /
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquir...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2008.
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| Colección: | Studies in German history ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857450517 0857450514 1282626922 9781282626928 9786612626920 6612626925 |