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Different Germans, many Germanies. New transatlantic perspectives /

As much as any other nation, Germany has long been understood in terms of totalizing narratives. For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history, whether through the lens of Nazi-era militarism and racial hatred or t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jarausch, Konrard, Wenzel, Harald, Goihl, Karin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Berghahn Books Ltd., 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Konrad H Jarausch and Harald Wenzel
  • Part I : Responses to modernity. A modern reich? American perceptions of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 / Scott H Krause
  • The dual training stystem : the southwest's contributions to German economic development / Hal Hansen
  • The German forest as an emblem of Germany's ambivalent modernity / Jeffrey K Wilson
  • Health as a public good : the positive legacies of Volksgesundheit / Annette F Timm
  • Part II : Democratic transformation. Antifascist heroes and Nazi victime : mythmaking and political reorientation in Berlin, 1945-47 / Clara M Oberle
  • The pen is mightier than the sword? student newspapers and democracy in postwar West Germany / Brian M Puaca
  • Human rights, pluralism, and the democratization of postwar Germany / Ned Richardson-Little
  • African students and racial ambivalence in the GDR during the 1960s / Sara Pugach
  • Part III : Searching for a new model. The German model in renewable energy development / Carol Hager
  • Germany's approach to the financial crisis : a product of ordo-liberalism? / Mark K Cassell
  • Dreams of divided Berlin : postmigrant perspectives on German nationhood in Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof / Jeffrey Jurgens
  • Part IV : Global implications. Inventing the German film as foreign film : the origins of a fraught transatlantic exchange / Sara F Hall
  • Atlantic transfers of critical theory : Alexander Kluge and the United States in fiction / Matthew D Miller
  • Nation and memory : redemptive and reflective cosmopolitanism in contemporary Germany / Michael Meng.