| Description |
1 online resource (514 pages) |
| Series |
Princeton paperbacks |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Writing about 1950s West Germany -- Part One: The Weight of the Past, New Beginnings, and the Construction of National Memory -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Hour of the Woman: Memories of Germany's ""Crisis Years"" and West German National Identity -- Chapter Two: Survivors of Totalitarianism: Returning POWs and the Reconstruction of Masculine Citizenship in West Germany, 1945 -1955 |
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Chapter Three: Remembering the War in a Nation of Victims: West German Pasts in the 1950s -- Chapter Four: Mission to Happiness: The Cohort of 1949 and the Making of East and West Germans -- Part Two: Stigma: ""Others"" in the Shaping of West Germany -- Introduction -- Chapter Five: An Uneasy Existence: Jewish Survivors in Germany after 1945 -- Chapter Six: Heimat in Turmoil: African-American GIs in 1950s West Germany -- Chapter Seven: Of German Mothers and ""Negermischlingskinder"": Race, Sex, and the Postwar Nation |
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Chapter Eight: Guest Workers and Policy on Guest Workers in the Federal Republic: From the Beginning of Recruitment in 1955 until its Halt in 1973 -- Chapter Nine: The Ever-Present Other: Communism in the Making of West Germany -- Part Three: The Presence of the Absent -- Introduction -- Chapter Ten: ""Normalization"" in the West: Traces of Memory Leading Back into the 1950s -- Chapter Eleven: Film in the 1950s: Passing Images of Guilt and Responsibility |
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Chapter Twelve: Memory and Commerce, Gender and Restoration: Wolfgang Staudte's Roses for the State Prosecutor (1959) and West German Film in the 1950s -- Chapter Thirteen: Creating a Cocoon of Public Acquiescence: The Author-Reader Relationship in Postwar German Literature -- Part Four: The Emergence of Civil Society, Modernity's Claims and Limits -- Introduction -- Chapter Fourteen: Recasting Bourgeois Germany -- Chapter Fifteen: From Starvation to Excess? Trends in the Consumer Society from the 1940s to the 1970s |
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Chapter Sixteen: ""Normalization"" as Project: Some Thoughts on Gender Relations in West Germany during the 1950s -- Chapter Seventeen: Cold War Angst: The Case of West-German Opposition to Rearmament and Nuclear Weapons -- Part Five: The Ambiguity of American Influences, Popular Culture and the Breaking of ""High Culture's"" Hegemony -- Introduction -- Chapter Eighteen: A New, ""Western"" Hero? Reconstructing German Masculinity in the 1950s -- Chapter Nineteen: Establishing Cultural Democracy: Youth, ""Americanization,"" and the Irresistible Rise of Popular Culture |
| Summary |
Exploring postwar German history, literature and film, this text examines the lives of real people to learn how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture |
| Analysis |
Adorno, Theodor |
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Auschwitz trial |
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Bahn-Flessburg, Ruth |
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Baumholder |
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Berlin Wall |
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Carnival (film) |
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Ebeling, Hermann |
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Edelweiss Pirates |
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Fehrenbach, Heide |
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Fordism |
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Frings, Cardinal |
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Geertz, Clifford |
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Genin, Salomea |
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Grass, Günter |
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Great Depression |
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Heimat |
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Hobsbawm, Eric |
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Jens, Walter |
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Little Richard |
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Maier, Charles |
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Native Americans |
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New Left |
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Nuremberg trials |
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Ostpolitik |
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Ottinger, Ulrike |
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Palestine |
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Playboy magazine |
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Presley, Elvis |
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Sanders-Brahms, Helma |
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Sinti and Roma |
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Slave labor |
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Ulbricht, Walter |
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Weber, Max |
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anti-Americanism |
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book market expansion (1950s) |
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civil society |
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cultural history |
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cultural recognition |
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divorce rate after the war |
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hunger years |
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industrial leaders |
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industrial relations |
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labor unions |
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male family wage |
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male gaze |
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modern art |
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neo-Nazis |
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racial stereotyping |
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reading |
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reception aesthetics |
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universal suffrage debates |
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vocational training |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Racism -- Germany (West)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychological aspects
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Racism
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Manners and customs
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Ethnic relations
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Cultural policy
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Wirtschaftswunder
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Cultuurgeschiedenis.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Racism -- Germany (West)
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Memoire collective -- Allemagne -- 1945-.
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Racisme -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- 1945- ...
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Shoah -- Aspect psychologique.
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Västtyskland -- vardagsliv och traditioner.
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Förintelsen -- psykologiska aspekter.
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Rasism -- Västtyskland.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany (West) -- Social life and customs
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Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations
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Germany (West) -- Cultural policy
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| Subject |
Germany (West)
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Deutschland Bundesrepublik
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Germany (West) -- Cultural policy.
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Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations.
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Germany (West) -- Social life and customs.
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Allemagne -- Civilisation -- 20e siecle.
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Allemagne -- Relations interethniques.
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Allemagne -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 20e siecle.
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Allemagne (ouest) -- Relations interethniques -- 1945- ...
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Allemagne (ouest) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 1945- ...
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Allemagne (Republique federale) -- Vie intellectuelle -- 1945-1970.
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Allemagne (Republique federale) -- Relations interethniques -- 1945-1970.
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Allemagne (Republique federale) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 1945-1970.
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Deutschland <Bundesrepublik>.
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| Genre/Form |
Konferenzschrift.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021694904 |
| ISBN |
9780691222554 |
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069122255X |
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9780691058191 |
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0691058199 |
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