Rewriting German History

Rewriting German History

Author: Jan Rüger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-11

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1137347791

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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.


Gendering Modern German History

Gendering Modern German History

Author: Karen Hagemann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1845454421

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To provide a critical overview in a comparative German-American perspective is the main aim of this volume, which brings together experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Through case studies, it demonstrates the extraordinary power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments.


Rewriting German History

Rewriting German History

Author: Jan Rüger

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1137347791

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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.


Education in the Third Reich

Education in the Third Reich

Author: Gilmer W. Blackburn

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0791496805

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In its determination to take absolute control, the Third Reich focused on the nation's youth, reserving for the schools the vital task of refashioning the German psyche. This book examines these propaganda efforts—one of the most radical and far-reaching experiments in educational history. The book focuses on the manipulation of the German past, one of the primary means of state intervention to ensure the triumph of the racial idea in history. It shows how textbooks written by National Socialists equalled or exceeded the most imaginative fiction, with an itinerary that extended from Valhalla and the Germania of Tacitus to the Prussia of Frederick the Great, before mounting to the pinnacle represented by the Third Reich. The primary source materials for this study consist of a broad, representative collection of history textbooks, primers, and books of readings containing historical instruction.


Narrative as Counter-Memory

Narrative as Counter-Memory

Author: Reiko Tachibana

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1998-07-30

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1438421745

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CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books The wartime and postwar cultural histories of Germany and Japan show similar experiences of defeat, occupation, and then the reconstruction of powerful societies. Little previous research has examined the literary works that reflect these contacts and parallelisms. For the first time, this book offers an extensive comparative study of German and Japanese narratives that serve as a form of "counter-memory," in Foucault's phrase, for the two cultures. Rather than attempting to present objective or comprehensive views of history, these narratives draw upon personal memories to offer subjective, selective, and individualistic reports. They provide an alternative (or "counter-memory") to more official versions of World War II and its aftermath. Major writers such as Mishima Yukio, Ibuse Masuji, Oba Minako, Gunter Grass, Uwe Johnson, Christa Wolf, and the Nobel Prize winners Oe Kenzaburo and Heinrich Boll are set in the context of lesser-known writers, including a nine-year-old child, a medical doctor, a woman who served as a journalist, and a former prisoner, to provide a broad cultural basis for understanding responses to the war from within the two societies. This book combines a broad historical scope with detailed examinations of important individual texts, with both aspects securely set on a firm foundation of historical and literary scholarship. The rhythm of alternation between synthetic generalizations and close textual explication (yielding interpretive insights while providing lucid and economical exposition and summary) allows for carefully balanced and integrated comparisons.


Between the Alps and a Hard Place

Between the Alps and a Hard Place

Author: Angelo M. Codevilla

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Published: 2000-09-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 089526238X

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Switzerland's "neutrality" is fully examined and challenged in this groundbreaking study of the economics underpinning the political in that country's successful non-alignment policies.


The German Underworld (Routledge Revivals)

The German Underworld (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Richard J. Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317553195

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This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches, bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants and thieves, from the end of the thirteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. This book is ideal for students of history, particularly the German history.


Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany

Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany

Author: John Klapper

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1571139095

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An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.


Rewriting History in Manga

Rewriting History in Manga

Author: Nissim Otmazgin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1137551437

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This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.


Past in the Making

Past in the Making

Author: Michal Kopecek

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9639776041

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Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of ‘negationists,’ has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused analyses of particular debates or social-cultural phenomena in individual Central European countries, from Germany to Ukraine and Estonia. Where is the borderline between legitimate re-examination of historical interpretations and attempts to rewrite history in a politically motivated way that downgrades or denies essential historical facts? How do the traditional ‘national historical narratives’ react to the ‘spill-over’ of international and political controversies into their ‘sphere of influence’? Technological progress, along with the overall social and cultural decentralization shatters the old hierarchies of academic historical knowledge under the banner of culture of memory, and breeds an unequalled democratization in historical representation. This book offers a unique approach based on the provocative and instigating intersection of scholarly research, its political appropriations, and social reflection from a representative sample of Central and East European countries.