Rewriting German history : new perspectives on modern Germany /: new perspectives on modern Germany. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jan Rüger, Birbeck University of London, UK, Nikolaus Wachsmann, Birbeck University of London, UK.
• Authors: Rüger, Jan; Wachsmann, Nikolaus
• Editors: Rüger, Jan; Wachsmann, Nikolaus
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 943.08; Europe/Germany; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Modern/20th Century; Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Collective memory -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Group identity -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Germany -- Historiography -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137347800; 1137347805
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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