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For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice rituals of pagan "Teutonic" tribes, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, and the age-old customs that defined German character. Yet, as Joe Perry...
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German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally slowed or diverted, leads inexorably toward death and, in the twentieth century, transfiguration. Along the way, he addresses such topics as local government,...
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"Wolf Lepenies, Winner of the 2006 Peace Prize, German Booksellers' Association" Wolf Lepenies is one of Germany's foremost intellectuals. He served as Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg, the German Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1986-2001), where he is now a Permanent Fellow. Lepenies is also Professor of Sociology at the Free University in Berlin, and he spent several years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author...
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This book is one of the first to use citizenship as a lens through which to understand German history in the twentieth century. By considering how Germans defined themselves and others, the book explores how nationality and citizenship rights were constructed, and how Germans defined-and contested-their national community over the century. The volume presents new research informed by cultural, political, legal, and institutional history to obtain...
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The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for American artists, writers, and activists. During the Cold War and in the shadow of the Wall, figures such as Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and...
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Que connaissons-nous des Allemands, de leur identité, de leur culture ? Peu de choses...
Cette question n'a jamais cessé de hanter les Allemands eux-mêmes. Depuis la chute du Mur en 1989 et la réunification de 1990, l'Allemagne s'interroge sur son passé, mais aussi sur son devenir : sur quelles bases reconstruire un pays dont la population a été rigoureusement scindée pendant quatre décennies ? Comment vivre en démocrates avec le souvenir...
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A study of the generation of Germans dealing with the psychological effects of the parents' and grandparents' experiences during and after World War II.
How is it possible for people who were born in a time of relative peace and prosperity to suddenly discover war as a determining influence on their lives?
For decades to speak openly of German suffering during World War II-to claim victimhood in a country that had victimized millions-was unthinkable....
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