- Summary
- "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. Subjects covered include the peculiarities of Nazi Germany, the comparison between Hitler and Mussolini, eugenics and racial theory, genocide and defeat, memory and heroism, prostitution and women's rights, the Anglo-German relationship and the politics of culture in modern Germany"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- New perspectives on modern Germany
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Crossing the North Sea : is there a British approach to German History? / Geoff Eley
Part I. The Local Nation. Cologne Cathedral as an international monument / Astrid Swenson
Germany's boundaries and the politics of defeat : Heligoland, 1918-1933 / Jan Rüger
The "cleansing" of culture in Germany's lost east after the Second World War / Hugo Service
Traitors, heroes, martyrs, victims? : veterans of Nazi "forced conscription" from Alsace and Moselle / Elizabeth Vlossak
Part II. Culture and Society. The age of assassination : monarchy and nation in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Hoffman
Finding the female self : women's autonomy, marriage, and social change in nineteenth-century Germany / Lynn Abrams
Beasts in human clothing? : pimps, moral panics, and the German underworld / Victoria Harris
Myth-making in Hitler's shadow : the transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945 / Bernhard Fulda
East German perspectives on continuity and change across the caesura of 1989 / Hester Vaizey
Part III. The Peculiarities of Nazi Germany. Justifying genocide in Weimar, Germany : the Armenian genocide, German nationalists, and assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923 / Stefan Ihrig
Interwar Britain and German racial theory / Bradley W. Hart
The cultivation of Mussolini's image in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Christian Goeschel
Dictators for sale : the commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / Bianca Gaudenzi
Veiled survivors : Jews, Roma and Muslims in the tears of the Holocaust / David Motadel
The Nazi concentration camps in international context : comparisons and connections / Nikolaus Wachsmann.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rüger, Jan, author editor of compilation.
Wachsmann, Nikolaus, author editor of compilation.
- Notes
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Festschrift of original essays dedicated to Sir Richard J. Evans, to mark his retirement as Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University.
Editors' preface / Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann -- Crossing the North Sea : is there a British approach to German History? / Geoff Eley -- PART. THE LOCAL NATION. Finding the female self : women's autonomy, marriage, and social change in nineteenth-century Hamburg / Lynn Abrams -- Cologne Cathedral as an international monument / Astrid Swenson -- Germany's boundaries and the politics of defeat : Heligoland, 1918-1933 / Jan Rüger -- Cosmopolitan highlanders : region and nation in Anglo-German encounters in the Himalayas, 1903-1945 / Tom Neuhaus -- Traitors, heroes, martyrs, victims? : veterans of Nazi "forced conscription" from Alsace and Moselle / Elizabeth Vlossak -- PART II. CULTURE AND SOCIETY. The age of assassination : monarchy and nation in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Hoffman -- Beasts in human clothing? : pimps, moral panics, and the German underworld / Victoria Harris -- The "cleansing" of culture in Germany's lost east after the Second World War / Hugo Service -- Myth-making in Hitler's shadow : the transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945 / Bernhard Fulda -- East German perspectives on continuity and change across the caesura of 1989 / Hester Vaizey -- PART III. THE PECULIARITIES OF NAZI GERMANY. Justifying genocide in Weimar, Germany : the Armenian genocide, German nationalists, and assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923 / Stefan Ihrig -- Interwar Britain and German racial theory / Bradley W. Hart -- The cultivation of Mussolini's image in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Christian Goeschel -- Dictators for sale : the commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / Bianca Gaudenzi -- Veiled survivors : Jews, Roma and Muslims in the tears of the Holocaust / David Motadel -- The Nazi concentration camps in international context : comparisons and connections / Nikolaus Wachsmann.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crossing the North Sea : is there a British approach to German History? / Geoff Eley -- Part I. The Local Nation. Cologne Cathedral as an international monument / Astrid Swenson -- Germany's boundaries and the politics of defeat : Heligoland, 1918-1933 / Jan Rüger -- The "cleansing" of culture in Germany's lost east after the Second World War / Hugo Service -- Traitors, heroes, martyrs, victims? : veterans of Nazi "forced conscription" from Alsace and Moselle / Elizabeth Vlossak -- Part II. Culture and Society. The age of assassination : monarchy and nation in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Hoffman -- Finding the female self : women's autonomy, marriage, and social change in nineteenth-century Germany / Lynn Abrams -- Beasts in human clothing? : pimps, moral panics, and the German underworld / Victoria Harris -- Myth-making in Hitler's shadow : the transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945 / Bernhard Fulda -- East German perspectives on continuity and change across the caesura of 1989 / Hester Vaizey -- Part III. The Peculiarities of Nazi Germany. Justifying genocide in Weimar, Germany : the Armenian genocide, German nationalists, and assassinated Young Turks, 1919-1923 / Stefan Ihrig -- Interwar Britain and German racial theory / Bradley W. Hart -- The cultivation of Mussolini's image in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Christian Goeschel -- Dictators for sale : the commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / Bianca Gaudenzi -- Veiled survivors : Jews, Roma and Muslims in the tears of the Holocaust / David Motadel -- The Nazi concentration camps in international context : comparisons and connections / Nikolaus Wachsmann.
