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Shattered Past
Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous pedestrian malls. Shattered Past is a bold reconsideration of the perplexing pattern of Germany's twentieth-century history. Konrad Jarausch and Michael Geyer explore the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. They argue that the collapse of Communism, national reunification, and the postmodern shift call for a new reading of the country's turbulent development, one that no longer suggests continuity but rupture and conflict. Comprising original essays, the book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are now losing their hold. Treated next are major issues of recent debate that suggest how new kinds of German history might be written: annihilationist warfare, complicity with dictatorship, the taming of power, the impact of migration, the struggle over national identity, redefinitions of womanhood, and the development of consumption as well as popular culture. The concluding chapters reflect on the country's gradual transition from chaos to civility. This penetrating study will spark a fresh debate about the meaning of the German past during the last century. There is no single master narrative, no Weltgeist, to be discovered. But there is a fascinating story to be told in many different ways.
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Der weiße Fleck : eine Anleitung zu antirassistischem Denken
\"Struktureller Rassismus, weiße Privilegien und Andersmachung von verletzbaren Minderheiten -- die Debatte der vergangenen Monate hat gezeigt, wie stark diese Themen die Gesellschaft polarisieren. Und auch wenn das Bewusstsein für die Ungleichheit in unserem Land gewachsen ist: Rassistisches Denken ist nach wie vor tief in uns allen verankert -- und doch unsichtbar für die weiße Mehrheitsgesellschaft. Diese blinden Flecken will Mohamed Amjahid in seinem Buch auflösen. Er beschreibt dabei nicht nur, wie das System weißer Privilegien wirkt, sondern zeigt auch ganz konkret, wie wir unseren Rassismus verlernen können, um dem Ziel einer friedlichen, gerechten und inklusiven Gesellschaft gemeinsam näher zu kommen.\" -- Various websites
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States of Liberation
States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, States of Liberation tells the remarkable story of how the two German states persecuted gay men – and how those men slowly, over the course of decades, won new rights and created new opportunities for themselves in the heart of Cold War Europe. Relying on untapped archives in Germany and the United States as well as oral histories with witnesses and survivors, Huneke reveals that communist East Germany was in many ways far more progressive on queer issues than democratic West Germany.
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Mist, die versteht mich ja! : aus dem Leben einer Schwarzen Deutschen
Little Florence, born in Hamburg to Nigerian parents, was taken care of by a single woman in Buxtehude at the end of the 1960s. At the age of eight, her parents take her to Lagos, a country whose language she does not speak, whose culture is alien to her, to a family she does not know. With the courageous intervention of a teacher, she made it back to Germany and made her way there.
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The Fabrication of Labor
This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define
the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from
Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and
Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature
of labor as a commodity differed fundamentally in different
national contexts. A detailed comparative study of German and
British wool textile mills reveals a basic difference in the way
labor was understood, even though these industries developed in the
same period, used similar machines, and competed in similar
markets. These divergent definitions of the essential character of
labor as a commodity influenced the entire industrial phenomenon,
affecting experiences of industrial work, methods of remuneration,
disciplinary techniques, forms of collective action, and even
industrial architecture. Starting from a rigorous analysis of
detailed archival materials, this study broadens out to analyze the
contrasting developmental pathways to wage labor in Western Europe
and offers a startling reinterpretation of theories of political
economy put forward by Adam Smith and Karl Marx. In his brilliant
cross-national study, Richard Biernacki profoundly reorients the
analysis of how culture constitutes the very categories of economic
life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program,
which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek
out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach,
and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again
using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally
published in 1996.
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The Berlin school : films from the Berliner schule
\"The informal movement that critics like to call the Berlin School,\" as director Christoph Hochhèausler puts it, is a loose affiliation of filmmakers who emerged around the time the Berlin Wall fell. The founding figures--Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, and Angela Schanelec--and their younger colleagues are not bound by a manifesto or by any singular aesthetic. Nonetheless, their observant portrayals of characters in flux offer a compelling cinematic expression of the search for new identities in a time of societal change. The films of the Berlin School have resonated profoundly since the mid-1990s, making it one of the most influential auteur movements to emerge from Europe in the new millennium.
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Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial-the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation-neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of \"Subsequent Trials\"-ignores the unique historical and legal character of the NMT trials, which differed significantly from that of their predecessor. The NMT trials marked a decisive shift both in terms of analysis of the Third Reich and conceptualization of international criminal law. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the NMT and brings together diverse perspectives from the fields of law, history, and political science, exploring the genesis, impact, and legacy of the twelve Military Tribunals held at Nuremberg between 1946 and 1949.
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Art Outside the Lines
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in the GDR. It explores the diversity of art produced in the state and contests the long-held perception that socialist realism and artistic innovation were mutually exclusive. Crucially, the collection puts art itself to the fore; GDR art is considered not simply as a political by-product, as is so often the case, but as an entity of innovation and aesthetic value in its own right.
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