Author: Universität. LeipzigPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
German Democratic Republic in Reconstruction
Reconstruction and Identity
Author: Dorothee WierlingAmerican Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955
Author: Jeffry M. DiefendorfPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521431200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This volume of essays by German and American historians discusses key issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II.
How German is She?
Author: Erica CarterPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472107551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The 1950s have passed into the history books as the period of the Federal Republic of Germany's so-called "economic miracle"; yet attention to women's roles in economic reconstruction has until now been negligible. In this book, Erica Carter explores how the development of a "social market economy" after 1949 gave a new centrality to consumers as key players in the economic life of the nation, and, in that process, gave women a new public significance. Public attention focused in particular on the nation's housewives, who were to train the populace for entry into a new world of consumer prosperity. Carter investigates this focus from two perspectives: in part 1, she tackles the political economy of postwar West German consumption, and in part 2, she looks at representations of the consuming woman across a range of popular cultural forms. Since visual imagery is discussed at length, the book is lavishly illustrated with advertisements, fashion photographs, film stills, and documentary photography from the period. How German Is She? also makes a distinctive contribution to questions of national identity. While many historians agree that nationalism was a spent force after 1945, Carter argues that concepts of nationhood survived in the rhetorics of public policy and in popular culture of the period. In this context, national and efficient consumption became a housewife's duty, not just to husband and family, but to the postwar "nation." The book will be of primary interest to scholars and students in German studies, women's studies, and cultural studies. Erica Carter is Research Fellow in German Studies, University of Warwick.
Handbook of Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Author: John B. AllcockPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
On reconstruction in countries like Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Covers the most recent political and economic developments in every country in Eastern Europe, including German reunification. Each country profile provides a chronology of events for 1989-90, followed by information on the nature and extent of change privatization, currency r.
Comrades of Color
Author: Quinn SlobodianPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782387064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.
Shouldering the Burdens of Defeat
Author: Michael L. HughesPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807824948
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A compelling study of West Germany's attempts to redistribute the costs of defeat during World War II analyzes German ideas of social justice, economic rationality, and political legitimacy and traces their effect on post-war Germany.
German Unification
Author: P. CaldwellPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349298846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time.
Selling the Economic Miracle
Author: Mark E. SpickaPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845452230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of economics contributed to conservative electoral success, constructed a new belief in the free market economy within West German society, and provided legitimacy and political stability for the new Federal Republic of Germany.
Bread and Democracy in Germany
Author: Alexander GerschenkronPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801495861
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A classic in its field, Bread and Democracy in Germany has been widely praised since its publication in 1943 for its account of German political and economic development. In his preface, Alexander Gerschenkron states: "The primary purpose of this study is to show, first, how, before 1914, the machinery of Junker protectionism is agriculture, coupled with the Junker philosophy... delayed the development of democratic institutions in Germany; and second, how the Junkers contrived to escape almost unscathed from the German revolution of 1918 and how this fact contributed to the constitutional weakness and subsequent disintegration of the Weimar Republic." Emphasizing the importance of the problem of German agriculture in its relation to democratic reconstruction, Gerschenkron asserts that "the political attitude of farmers in several European countries had a decisive influence on the fate of European democracy. Nowhere is this more true than in Germany. The German farmers bear their full share of responsibility for the advent of fascism in that country."