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Pain and prosperity : reconsidering twentieth-century German history / edited by Paul Betts and Greg Eghigian.

LIBRA DD232 .P34 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Betts, Paul, 1963-
Eghigian, Greg, 1961-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Political culture--Germany.
Political culture.
Germany.
National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects.
National socialism.
Germany--History--20th century.
History.
Germany--History--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Germany (East)--Social conditions.
Germany (East).
Social conditions.
Physical Description:
viii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Summary:
" This highly important work uses the leitmotiv of pain and prosperity to illuminate German history, with excellent essays that explore how these notions shaped each other, and how they framed German conceptions of identity, memory, selfhood, nationhood, and the past." - Alon Confino, University of Virginia
Contents:
Pain, entitlement, and social citzenship in modern Germany / Greg Eghigian
Cities forget, nations remember / Peter Fritzsche
Purchasing comfort / Patricia R. Stokes
Modern pain and Nazi panic / Geoffrey Cocks
The transformation of sacrifice / Sabine Behrenbeck
The myth of a suspended present / Katherine Pence
Scarcity and success / Ingrid M. Schenk
Remembrance of things past / Paul Betts.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-273) and index.
ISBN:
0804739374
0804739382
OCLC:
50291083

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