Weimar publics/Weimar subjects : rethinking the political culture of Germany in the 1920s /: rethinking the political culture of Germany in the 1920s. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kathleen Canning, Kerstin Barndt & Kristin McGuire.
• Other Names: Canning, Kathleen; Barndt, Kerstin; McGuire, Kristin
• Contents: Defeat and the legacy of war. The return of the undead : Weimar cinema and the Great War / Anton Kaes -- The work of art and the problem of politics in Berlin Dada / Brigid Doherty -- The secret history of photomontage : on the origins of the composite form and the Weimar photomontages of Marianne Brandt / Elizabeth Otto -- New citizens/new subjectivities. Mothers, citizens, and consumers : female readers in Weimar Germany / Kerstin Barndt -- Claiming citizenship : suffrage and subjectivity in Germany after the First World War / Kathleen Canning -- Feminist politics beyond the Reichstag : Helene Stöcker and visions of reform / Kristin McGuire -- Producing Jews : maternity, eugenics, and the embodiment of the Jewish subject / Sharon Gillerman -- Symbols, rituals, and discourses of democracy. Reforming the Reich : democratic symbols and rituals in the Weimar Republic / Manuela Achilles -- High expectations, deep disappointment : structures of the public perception of politics in the Weimar Republic / Thomas Mergel -- Contested narratives of the Weimar Republic : the case of the "Kutisker-Barmat scandal" / Martin H. Geyer -- Political violence, contested public space, and reasserted masculinity in Weimar Germany / Dirk Schumann -- Publics, publicity, and mass culture. "A self-representation of the masses" : Siegfried Kracauer's curious Americanism / Miriam Hansen -- Neither masses nor individuals : representations of the collective in interwar German culture / Stefan Jonsson -- Capital culture in decline : inflation and the distress of intellectuals / Bernd Widdig -- Weimar topographies. Defining the nation in crisis : citizenship policy in the early Weimar Republic / Annemarie Sammartino -- Gender and colonial politics after the Versailles Treaty / Lora Wildenthal -- The economy of experience in Weimar Germany / Peter Fritzsche.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 943.085; Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Social conflict -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Social change -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany; HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century; Intellectual life; Political culture; Politics and government; Popular culture; Social change; Social conditions; Social conflict; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933; Germany; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845458461; 1282727400; 9781282727403
• Related ISBNs: 184545846X; 9781845456894; 1845456890
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.