West Germany Under Construction
Author: Robert G. Moeller
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects important recent essays in a critical reexamination of the Federal Republic's early history
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Author: Robert G. Moeller
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects important recent essays in a critical reexamination of the Federal Republic's early history
Author: Robert G. Moeller
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780472066483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects important recent essays in a critical reexamination of the Federal Republic's early history
Author: Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993-06-24
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0195361091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen anew. The housing crisis had been overcome and virtually all important monuments reconstructed, and the cities had reclaimed their characteristic identities. Everywhere there was a mixture of old and new: historic churches and town halls stood alongside new housing and department stores; ancient street layouts were crossed or encircled by wide arteries; old city centers were balanced by garden suburbs laid out according to modern planning principles. In this book, Diefendorf examines the questions raised by this remarkable feat of urban reconstruction. He explains who was primarily responsible, what accounted for the speed of rebuilding, and how priorities were set and decisions acted upon. He argues that in such crucial areas as architectural style, urban planning, historic preservation, and housing policy, the Germans drew upon personnel, ideas, institutions, and practical experiences from the Nazi and pre-Nazi periods. Diefendorf shows how the rebuilding of West Germany's cities after 1945 can only be understood in terms of long-term continuities in urban development.
Author: Building Services Research and Information Association
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mervyn O'Driscoll
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-01-10
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1526126060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking book is an indispensable contribution to appreciating the dilemmas facing Ireland in the ‘age of Brexit’. Encompassing an exhaustive account, it traces the relationship between Ireland and FRG by drawing on original material from both. It critiques depictions of Irish-German relations as peculiarly affable and explores the problems presented by trade, Britain, neutrality, NATO, Northern Ireland and the Cold War. The work contends the German ‘economic miracle’ was a vital stimulus for Ireland’s tardy retreat from protectionism. It maintains that Ireland’s reorientation was informed by lessons gleaned from Irish-German trade relations as well as a budding recognition of the potential offered by German industrial investment. This granted Germany weighty influence over the shape and direction of Ireland.
Author: Luke Smythe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-29
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1000625214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and extensive output in the West attests to his greater freedom under capitalism, but also to his struggles with belonging in a highly individualised society, a problem he was far from alone in facing. The dynamic of increasing individualism has been closely examined by sociologists, but has yet to be employed as a framework for understanding broader trends in recent German art history. Rather than critique this development from a socialist perspective or experiment with new communal structures like a number of his colleagues, Richter sought and found security in traditional modes of bourgeois collectivity, like the family, religion, painting and the democratic capitalist state. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history as well as German history, culture and politics.
Author: John W. Lemza
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-05-16
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1476624100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn April 28, 1946, a small group of American wives and children arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, West Germany, the first of thousands of military family members to make the trans-Atlantic journey. They were the basis of a network of military communities--"Little Americas"--that would spread across the postwar German landscape. During a 45-year period which included some of the Cold War's tensest moments, their presence confirmed America's resolve to maintain Western democracy in the face of the Soviet threat. Drawing on archival sources and personal narratives, this book explores these enclaves of Americanism, from the U.S. government's perspective to the grassroots view of those who made their homes in Cold War Europe. These families faced many challenges in balancing their military missions with their daily lives during a period of dynamic global change. The author describes interaction in American communities that were sometimes separated, sometimes connected with their German neighbors.
Author: Clayton J. Whisnant
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-05-22
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1137028343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more masculine view of homosexuality also became prominent. Above all, a public debate about homosexuality emerged, constituting a critical debate within the Sexual Revolution.
Author: Ursula J. van Beek
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Published: 2005-09-12
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 3847414534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book compares five newly emerged democracies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America and Africa. Cutting across vastly dif¬fer¬ent historical and cultural backgrounds it tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations.
Author: Douglas B. Klusmeyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1845459695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerman migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges. Focusing on these new challenges that German policy makers face, the authors, both internationally recognized in this field, use historical argument, theoretical analysis, and empirical evaluation to advance a more nuanced understanding of recent initiatives and the implications of these initiatives. Their approach combines both synthesis and original research in a presentation that is not only accessible to the general educated reader but also addresses the concerns of academic scholars and policy analysts. This important volume offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the history of German migration law and policy from the Federal Republic’s inception in 1949 to the present.