Rewriting German history : new perspectives on modern Germany / edited by Jan Rüger, Birkbeck University of London, UK, Nikolaus Wachsmann, Birkbeck University of London, UK.
- Published:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Rüger, Jan
Wachsmann, Nikolaus
- Series:
- New perspectives on modern Germany
- Contents:
- Crossing the North Sea : is there a British approach to German History? / Geoff Eley -- Part I. The Local Nation. Cologne Cathedral as an international monument / Astrid Swenson -- Germany's boundaries and the politics of defeat : Heligoland, 1918-1933 / Jan Rüger -- The "cleansing" of culture in Germany's lost east after the Second World War / Hugo Service -- Traitors, heroes, martyrs, victims? : veterans of Nazi "forced conscription" from Alsace and Moselle / Elizabeth Vlossak -- Part II. Culture and Society. The age of assassination : monarchy and nation in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Hoffman -- Finding the female self : women's autonomy, marriage, and social change in nineteenth-century Germany / Lynn Abrams -- Beasts in human clothing? : pimps, moral panics, and the German underworld / Victoria Harris -- Myth-making in Hitler's shadow : the transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945 / Bernhard Fulda -- East German perspectives on continuity and change across the caesura of 1989 / Hester Vaizey -- Part III. The Peculiarities of Nazi Germany. Justifying genocide in Weimar, Germany : the Armenian genocide, German nationalists, and assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923 / Stefan Ihrig -- Interwar Britain and German racial theory / Bradley W. Hart -- The cultivation of Mussolini's image in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Christian Goeschel -- Dictators for sale : the commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / Bianca Gaudenzi -- Veiled survivors : Jews, Roma and Muslims in the tears of the Holocaust / David Motadel -- The Nazi concentration camps in international context : comparisons and connections / Nikolaus Wachsmann.
- Summary:
- "Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century. Subjects covered include the peculiarities of Nazi Germany, the comparison between Hitler and Mussolini, eugenics and racial theory, genocide and defeat, memory and heroism, prostitution and women's rights, the Anglo-German relationship and the politics of culture in modern Germany"--
- Subject(s):
- 1900-1999
- Collective memory—Germany—History—20th century
- Group identity—Germany—History—20th century
- HISTORY—Europe—Germany
- HISTORY—Military—World War II.
- HISTORY—Modern—20th Century
- Collective memory
- Group identity
- Historiography
- Political culture
- Political culture—Germany—History—20th century
- Germany
- Germany—Historiography—20th century
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781137347787 (hardback)
1137347783 (hardback) - Note:
- Festschrift of original essays dedicated to Sir Richard J. Evans, to mark his retirement as Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University.
Editors' preface / Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann -- Crossing the North Sea : is there a British approach to German History? / Geoff Eley -- PART. THE LOCAL NATION. Finding the female self : women's autonomy, marriage, and social change in nineteenth-century Hamburg / Lynn Abrams -- Cologne Cathedral as an international monument / Astrid Swenson -- Germany's boundaries and the politics of defeat : Heligoland, 1918-1933 / Jan Rüger -- Cosmopolitan highlanders : region and nation in Anglo-German encounters in the Himalayas, 1903-1945 / Tom Neuhaus -- Traitors, heroes, martyrs, victims? : veterans of Nazi "forced conscription" from Alsace and Moselle / Elizabeth Vlossak -- PART II. CULTURE AND SOCIETY. The age of assassination : monarchy and nation in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Hoffman -- Beasts in human clothing? : pimps, moral panics, and the German underworld / Victoria Harris -- The "cleansing" of culture in Germany's lost east after the Second World War / Hugo Service -- Myth-making in Hitler's shadow : the transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945 / Bernhard Fulda -- East German perspectives on continuity and change across the caesura of 1989 / Hester Vaizey -- PART III. THE PECULIARITIES OF NAZI GERMANY. Justifying genocide in Weimar, Germany : the Armenian genocide, German nationalists, and assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923 / Stefan Ihrig -- Interwar Britain and German racial theory / Bradley W. Hart -- The cultivation of Mussolini's image in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Christian Goeschel -- Dictators for sale : the commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / Bianca Gaudenzi -- Veiled survivors : Jews, Roma and Muslims in the tears of the Holocaust / David Motadel -- The Nazi concentration camps in international context : comparisons and connections / Nikolaus Wachsmann. - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Edward J. and Eleanor Black Nichols Library Endowment Fund; 2016
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