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Civil society and dictatorship in modern German history / Jürgen Kocka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kocka, Jürgen, author.
- Series:
- Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures.
- Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil society--Germany--History--20th century.
- Civil society.
- Dictatorship--Germany--History--20th century.
- Dictatorship.
- Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, New Hampshire ; London : University Press of New England, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A consideration of twentieth-century German social history and the legacies of the two dictatorships
- Contents:
- Title Page; Contents; Foreword; 1 | Introduction; 2 | Bourgeois Culture and Civil Society: The German Case in a European Context; The Opportunities of Semantic Ambivalence; Bürgertum: Bourgeoisie Defined by Its Opponents and Its Culture; Civil Society: The History and Definition of a Concept; Bourgeoisie and Civil Society during the Kaiserreich; A Short View on the Twentieth Century; 3 | Comparing Dictatorships: Toward a Social History of the German Democratic Republic; Why a History of the GDR?; Social Blockades and the Limits of Political Control; 1949-1989: Four Periods of GDR History
- The GDR in Comparative Perspectives4 | Dealing with Difficult Pasts: Collective Memories and Politics in Germany after 1945 and 1990; How West Germans and East Germans Dealt with Their Nazi Past, 1945-1990; Remembering the GDR after Unification: Different Layers, Controversial Debates; Memories Compete and Reinforce One Another; 5 | Historians, Fashion, and Truth: The Last Fifty Years; History: A Changeable Discipline; An Example: Changing Views of World War I; Five Major Trends; The Productivity of Fashion and the Attainability of Truth: History as a Profession; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- "Brandeis University Press, Historical Society of Israel"
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612661075
- 9781282661073
- 1282661078
- 9781584659105
- 1584659106
- OCLC:
- 741507460
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