Rewriting German history : new perspectives on modern Germany

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Rewriting German history : new perspectives on modern Germany

edited by Jan Rüger, Nikolaus Wachsmann

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Rewriting German History offers striking new insights into key debates about the recent German past. Bringing together cutting-edge research and current discussions, this volume examines developments in the writing of the German past since the Second World War and suggests new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

  • Editors' Preface
  • Jan Ruger and Nikolaus Wachsmann 1. Crossing the North Sea - is there a British Approach to German History?
  • Geoff Eley PART I: THE LOCAL NATION 2. Cologne Cathedral as an International Monument
  • Astrid Swenson 3. Germany's Boundaries and the Politics of Defeat: Heligoland, 1918-1933
  • Jan Ruger 4. Cosmopolitan Highlanders: Region and Nation in Anglo-German Encounters in the Himalayas, 1903-1945
  • Tom Neuhaus 5. The 'Cleansing' of Culture in Germany's Lost East after the Second World War
  • Hugo Service 6. Traitors, Heroes, Martyrs, Victims? Veterans of Nazi 'Forced Conscription' from Alsace and Moselle
  • Elizabeth Vlossak PART II: CULTURE AND SOCIETY 7. The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  • Rachel G. Hoffman 8. Finding the Female Self: Women's Autonomy, Marriage, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Hamburg
  • Lynn Abrams 9. Beasts in Human Clothing? Pimps, Moral Panics, and the German Underworld
  • Victoria Harris 10. Myth-making in Hitler's Shadow: The Transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945
  • Bernhard Fulda 11. East German Perspectives on Continuity and Change across the Caesura of 1989
  • Hester Vaizey PART III: THE PECULIARITIES OF NAZI GERMANY 12. Justifying Genocide in Weimar Germany: The Armenian Genocide, German Nationalists, and Assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923
  • Stefan Ihrig 13. Interwar Britain and German Racial Theory
  • Bradley W. Hart 14. The Cultivation of Mussolini's Image in Weimar and Nazi Germany
  • Christian Goeschel 15. Dictators for Sale: The Commercialisation of the Duce and the Fuhrer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
  • Bianca Gaudenzi 16. Veiled Survivors: Jews, Roma and Muslims in the Years of the Holocaust
  • David Motadel 17. The Nazi Concentration Camps in International Context: Comparisons and Connections
  • Nikolaus Wachsmann

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