Bøger i Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany serien
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- Bog
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- Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture
413,95 - 1.228,95 kr. Looks at fascist constructions of health and illness, arguing that the metaphor of a healthy 'national body' - propagated by the Nazis as justification for the brutal elimination of various unwanted populations - continued to shape post-1945 discussions about the state of national culture.
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- 413,95 kr.
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- Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany
413,95 kr. Presents an exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of 'race' after the Holocaust. This title looks at ethnic drag (Ethnomaskerade) as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested 'Germanness' in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions.
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833,95 kr. This study adds to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyse the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image.
- Bog
- 833,95 kr.
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- Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953
1.248,95 kr. Explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. This volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts.
- Bog
- 1.248,95 kr.
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- German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
1.023,95 kr. Analysing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time.
- Bog
- 1.023,95 kr.
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- Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
893,95 kr. Being visible as a Jew in Weimar Germany often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions examines the constructs of German-Jewish visibility during the Weimar Republic and explores the controversial aspects of this identity - and the complex reasons many decided to conceal or reveal themselves as Jewish.
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- 893,95 kr.
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- Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s
1.318,95 kr. In the first half of the 20th century the German-speaking world became the international centre of medical-scientific sex research - and the birthplace of sexology and psychoanalysis. This is the first book to closely examine encounters among this era's German-speaking researchers across their emerging professional and disciplinary boundaries.
- Bog
- 1.318,95 kr.
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- German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State
1.148,95 kr. Explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire.
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- 1.148,95 kr.
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- Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany
423,95 kr. Examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 to 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German culture and follows the debate over jazz through the fourteen years of Germany's first democracy.
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- 423,95 kr.
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- Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld
1.138,95 kr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science was founded in Berlin in 1919 as a place of research, political advocacy, counselling, and public education. It was destroyed in 1933 as the first target of the Nazi book burnings. Not Straight from Germany examines its legacy, combining essays and a lavish array of visual materials.
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- 1.138,95 kr.
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- Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book
793,95 kr. Argues that Weimar photographic books stood at the center of debates about photography's ability to provide uniquely visual forms of perception and cognition that exceed the capacity of the textual realm. Each chapter provides a sustained analysis of a photographic book, while also bringing the cultural, social, and political context of the Weimar Republic to bear on its relevance and meaning.
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- 793,95 kr.
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- Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989
883,95 kr. Explores the dynamic between German-speaking and Middle Eastern states and empires from the time of the Crusades to the end of the Cold War. This insightful study illuminates the complex relationships among literary and other writings on the one hand, and economic, social, and political processes and material dimensions on the other.
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- 883,95 kr.
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- Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany
408,95 - 958,95 kr. Reveals the relationship between the rise of political violence in West Germany to the unprecedented growth of consumption
- Bog
- 408,95 kr.
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- Discourse and Practice in German-speaking Europe 1750-1830
428,95 kr. Recount the ways in which this drama - ""Gender in Transition"" - played out in German-speaking Europe during the transitional period from 1750 to 1830. This work examines the effects of gender in numerous realms of German life, including law, urban politics, marriage, religion, literature, natural science, fashion, and personal relationships.
- Bog
- 428,95 kr.
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618,95 kr. Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation
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- 618,95 kr.
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- Politics, Society and Culture in the Adenauer Era
618,95 kr. Unified Germany continues to confront problems of social inequality and widespread resistance to the acceptance of a truly multicultural society. By exploring how West Germans confronted - or failed to confront - similar problems in the early history of the Federal Republic, this collection makes a crucial contribution to understanding the present.
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- 618,95 kr.
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- The Autobiography of Alice Salomon
1.363,95 kr. In her autobiography, Alice Salomon describes how she became involved in social work and devoted her life to social activism and education, became a prolific author and leading feminist of her time. Her account ends with her expulsion from Germany and emigration to America in 1937.
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- 1.363,95 kr.
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- Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
1.298,95 kr. - Bog
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- German Unification and the Marginalization of Women
1.111,95 kr. Tells the story of the women who fought for a voice in the construction of a German state system
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- 1.111,95 kr.
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- The Complications of Modernization in Hamburg
423,95 kr. Presents a study of the creation of youth drug culture in Hamburg during the 1960s and 1970s and an exploration of the paradoxes of modernization. Placing Hamburg's drug scene within national and international contexts, this book examines the ways in which mass consumerism created complicated forms of resistance to state power and cultural norms.
- Bog
- 423,95 kr.
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- German Non-fiction Cinema 1967-2000
523,95 - 1.116,95 kr. The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production
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- 523,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 543,95 kr.