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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
- 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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