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Performance anxiety : sport and work in Germany from the empire to Nazism /

"Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders, articulated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hau, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Colección:German and European studies ; 25.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Wehrkraft and Volkskraft : the "human economy" and performance enhancement during the Empire
  • Conditioning bodies and minds during the Weimar Republic
  • Conditioning people's comrades
  • The Olympics of labour : the Reich vocational competitions, 1934-1939
  • The performance community at war
  • Conclusion.