Four Germanys : a chronicle of the Schorcht family /

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In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House that Giacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whose fortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germany through the long twentieth century. Each chapter of Four Germanys is reflective of generational r...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pitkin, Donald S. (Donald Stevenson), 1922-2012 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2016.
Colección:Politics, history, and social change
Temas:
Schorcht, Edwin, > 1890-1976 > Family.
Schorcht, Edwin, > 1890-1976
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Germany > Thuringia.
Farmers > Germany > Thuringia > Biography.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Allemagne > Thuringe.
Agriculteurs > Allemagne > Thuringe > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Families
Farmers
Manners and customs
Social aspects
Social conditions
Thuringia (Germany) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Thuringia (Germany) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Thuringia (Germany) > Biography.
Thuringe (Allemagne) > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
Thuringe (Allemagne) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Thuringe (Allemagne) > Biographies.
Germany > Thuringia
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Edwin and Elly
  • The lay of the land
  • Farming
  • The farmstead
  • Edgar and Irmgard
  • National Socialism
  • Edgar at war
  • American occupation, Russian occupation
  • Land reform, 1945-49
  • Irngard defects to the west
  • Collectivization of the land, LPG 1
  • Edgar becomes mayor
  • The mayoralty of Edgar Schorcht, 1965-87
  • From stables to apartments
  • Erhard and Heidrun Schorcht
  • The university
  • Heidrun in America
  • Heidrun, the metamorphosis of a Cold War kid
  • Maria Schorcht.

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