Rewriting German history
Subtitle: new perspectives on modern Germany
By: edited by Jan Rüger, Nikolaus Wachsmann
Series: New perspectives on modern Germany
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781137347787
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Political culture; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Group identity; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Festschrift of original essays dedicated to Sir Richard J. Evans, to mark his retirement as Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University.
Table of contents: title: Editors' preface / Jan Rüger and Nikolaus Wachsmann; title: Crossing the North Sea : is there a British approach to German History? / Geoff Eley; title: PART. THE LOCAL NATION. Finding the female self : women's autonomy, marriage, and social change in nineteenth-century Hamburg / Lynn Abrams; title: Cologne Cathedral as an international monument / Astrid Swenson; title: Germany's boundaries and the politics of defeat : Heligoland, 1918-1933 / Jan Rüger; title: Cosmopolitan highlanders : region and nation in Anglo-German encounters in the Himalayas, 1903-1945 / Tom Neuhaus; title: Traitors, heroes, martyrs, victims? : veterans of Nazi "forced conscription" from Alsace and Moselle / Elizabeth Vlossak; title: PART II. CULTURE AND SOCIETY. The age of assassination : monarchy and nation in nineteenth-century Europe / Rachel G. Hoffman; title: Beasts in human clothing? : pimps, moral panics, and the German underworld / Victoria Harris; title: The "cleansing" of culture in Germany's lost east after the Second World War / Hugo Service; title: Myth-making in Hitler's shadow : the transfiguration of Emil Nolde after 1945 / Bernhard Fulda; title: East German perspectives on continuity and change across the caesura of 1989 / Hester Vaizey; title: 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; title: Interwar Britain and German racial theory / Bradley W. Hart; title: The cultivation of Mussolini's image in Weimar and Nazi Germany / Christian Goeschel; title: Dictators for sale : the commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / Bianca Gaudenzi; title: Veiled survivors : Jews, Roma and Muslims in the tears of the Holocaust / David Motadel; title: The Nazi concentration camps in international context : comparisons and connections / Nikolaus Wachsmann.