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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Confino, Alon (Editor ), Betts, Paul, 1963- (Editor ), Schumann, Dirk (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Colección:Studies in German history ; v. 7.
Temas:
1900-1999
Death > Germany > History > 20th century.
Cemeteries > Germany > History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Germany > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > Germany.
Mort > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mémoire collective > Allemagne.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Cemeteries.
Collective memory.
Death.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Manners and customs.
Germany > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Allemagne > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Germany.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page-Between Mass Death and Individual Loss; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I-Bodies; Chapter 1-How the Germans Learned to Wage War; Chapter 2-The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War; Chapter 3-Reburying and Rebuilding; Part II-Disposal; Chapter 4-Fanning the Flames; Chapter 5-Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945-1990; Chapter 6-Death at the Munich Olympics; Chapter 7-When Cold Warriors Die; Part III-Subjectivity; Chapter 8-A Common Experience of Death; Chapter 9-Laughing about Death?
  • Chapter 10-Death, Spriritual Solace, and AfterlifeChapter 11-Yizkor! Commenoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany; Part IV-Ruins; Chapter 12-The Imaginatioin of Disaster; Chapter 13-European Malencholy and the Inability to Listen; Chapter 14-A Cemetery in Berlin; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index.

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