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Burned Bridge : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain / Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider.
Van Pelt Library DD284.5.G3 S54 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheffer, Edith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boundaries--Social aspects.
- History.
- Boundaries.
- Germany (East)--Relations--Germany (West).
- Germany (East).
- Relations.
- Germany (West).
- Germany (West)--Relations--Germany (East).
- Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany)--History--20th century.
- Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany).
- Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany)--History--20th century.
- Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany).
- Boundaries--Social aspects--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--History--1945-1990.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Foundations : Burned Bridge
- Insecurity : border mayhem
- Inequality : economic divides
- Kickoff : political skirmishing
- Shock : border closure and deportation
- Shift : everyday boundaries
- Surveillance : individual controls
- Home : life in the prohibited zone
- Fault line : life in the fortifications
- Disconnect : East-West relations
- Epilogue : new divides.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-342) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199737048
- 0199737045
- OCLC:
- 701622846
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