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Sweeping the German nation : domesticity and national identity in Germany, 1870-1945 / Nancy R. Reagin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reagin, Nancy Ruth, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, German--History--19th century.
- National characteristics, German.
- National characteristics, German--History--20th century.
- Housekeeping--Germany--History--19th century.
- Housekeeping.
- Housekeeping--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Germany.
- Germany--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- German housekeepers have an international reputation characterized by thrift, order, and extreme cleanliness. But where did this stereotype come from? This book explores how Germans defined and developed a particular style of domesticity in the late nineteenth century, and how it became crucial to German national identity.
- Contents:
- The habitus of domesticity
- Domesticity and German national character
- The politicization of housework
- Domesticity and Volksgemeinschaft
- The autarkic household and the Nazi Four-Year Plan
- Domesticity and "Germanization" in occupied Poland.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-16297-1
- 1-280-70325-3
- 0-511-24984-5
- 0-511-24876-8
- 0-511-25035-5
- 0-511-31896-0
- 0-511-24931-4
- OCLC:
- 476020799
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