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| 1. |  | Title: War stories: the search for a usable past in the Federal Republic of Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European Studies | German Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the "selecti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Jazz, rock, and rebels: cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany Author: Poiger, Uta G 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | Cultural Anthropology | European History | United States History | American Music | Jazz | Gender Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: What difference does a husband make?: women and marital status in Nazi and postwar Germany Author: Heineman, Elizabeth D 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | German Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consoli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Weimar surfaces: urban visual culture in 1920s Germany Author: Ward, Janet 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Architecture | Film | European Studies | European History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual cu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Culture and inflation in Weimar Germany Author: Widdig, Bernd Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: German Studies | European History | Intellectual History | European Literature Publisher's Description: For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dyn . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat  Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990 Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German Studies Publisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Industrial cowboys: Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 Author: Igler, David 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies | California and the West | Agriculture | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | History | Architectural History | European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Twenty thousand roads: women, movement, and the West Author: Scharff, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history - our restless, relentle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The war come home: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 Author: Cohen, Deborah 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | Military History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Beyond the conceivable: studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust Author: Diner, Dan 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | Jewish Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One ca . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The emancipation of writing: German civil society in the making, 1790s-1820s Author: McNeely, Ian F 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | German Studies | European History | Sociology | Political Theory | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Film | United States History | European History Publisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Where the world ended: re-unification and identity in the German borderland Author: Berdahl, Daphne 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | German Studies | Geography | European Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: In the shadow of catastrophe: German intellectuals between apocalypse and enlightenment Author: Rabinbach, Anson Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | German Studies | Social and Political Thought | Philosophy Publisher's Description: These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time.Analyzing the work of Benjamin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Author: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music | Film Publisher's Description: Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 Author: Johnson, David Alan 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold o . . . [more] Similar Items |