Re-thinking Academic Politics in (Re)unified Germany and the United States

Re-thinking Academic Politics in (Re)unified Germany and the United States

Author: John A. Weaver

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1135613699

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In Rethinking Academic Politics in (Re)Unified Germany andthe United States, Dr. John Weaver uses case studies to engage historical and contemporary issues in academic politics, arguing for the importance of this often-dismissed and much-bemoaned facet of academic work. Dr. Weaver's unique treatment includes discussions of such hotly debated issues as the Enola Gay exhibit, the science debates in the U.S., and the politics of academic evaluations and hiring practices. Rethinking Academic Politics in (Re)Unified Germany and the United States speaks to the interests of students and scholars of international and comparative education, higher education policy and practice, cultural studies, and science studies.


Educational Equity and Accountability

Educational Equity and Accountability

Author: Linda Skrla

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-02-02

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1135944113

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After decades of such 'inputs' as how many books are in the school library and the number of computers in the classroom, American education is shining a spotlight on results.


East German Historians since Reunification

East German Historians since Reunification

Author: Axel Fair-Schulz

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1438465386

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With German reunification and the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1990, East German historians and their traditions of historiography were removed from mainstream discourse in Germany and relegated to the periphery. By the mid-1990s, few GDR-trained historians remained in academia. These developments led to a greater degree of intellectual pluralism, yet marginalized many accomplished scholars. East German Historians since Reunification assesses what was gained and lost in the process of dissolving and remaking GDR institutions of historical scholarship. The collection combines primary and secondary sources: younger scholars offer analyses of East German historiography, while senior scholars who lived through the dismantling process provide firsthand accounts. Contributors address broad trends in scholarship as well as particular subfields and institutions. What unites them is a willingness to think critically about the achievements and shortcomings of GDR historiography, and its fate after German reunification.


Curriculum and the Holocaust

Curriculum and the Holocaust

Author: Marla Morris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-03

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1135649480

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Uses the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation; argues that history is the systematization of memory. Examines the way the Holocaust gets represented in historical texts and in novels.


Remembering 1989

Remembering 1989

Author: Anke Pinkert

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2024-10-07

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0226835340

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This account of the “laboratory of radical democracy” in the months before East Germany’s absorption in the West challenges memories of Germany’s reunification. For many, 1989 is an iconic date, one we associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. The year prompts some to rue the defeat of socialism in the East, while others celebrate a victory for democracy and capitalism in the reunified Germany. Remembering 1989 focuses on a largely forgotten interregnum: the months between the outbreak of protests in the German Democratic Republic in 1989 and its absorption by the West in 1990. Anke Pinkert, who herself participated in those protests, recalls these months as a volatile but joyous “laboratory of radical democracy,” and tells the story of how and why this “time out of joint” has been erased from Germany’s national memory. Remembering 1989 argues that in order to truly understand Germany’s historic transformation, we must revisit protesters’ actions across a wide range of minor, vernacular, and often transient sources. Drawing on rich archives including videotapes of untelevised protests, illegally printed petitions by Church leaders, audio recordings of dissident meetings, and interview footage with military troops, Pinkert opens the discarded history of East European social uprisings to new interpretations and imagines alternatives to Germany’s neoliberal status quo. The result is a vivid, unexpected contribution to memory studies and European history.


Rethinking the Cold War

Rethinking the Cold War

Author: Allen Hunter

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2010-06-02

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1439904561

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A path-breaking collection of essays by cutting-edge authors that reassess the Cold War since the fall of communism.


Book Review Index

Book Review Index

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Published: 2003

Total Pages: 1520

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Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.