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Essays on Modern German History
Edited by Frank Biess, Mark Roseman and Hanna Schissler
| 416 pages, bibliog., index ISBN 978-1-84545-200-1 Hb $90.00/£53.00 Published (Summer 2007) Buy now and get 15% off listed price |
“…a rich volume that manages to be remarkably coherent and diverse at the same time…The volume covers a large range of topics in modern German history in an engaging fashion and provides much stimulation for thought and discussion.” · H-German
Bringing together some of the most prominent contemporary historians of modern Germany alongside innovative newcomers to the field, this volume offers new perspectives on key debates surrounding Germany’s descent into, and emergence from, the Nazi catastrophe. It explores the intersections between society, economy, and international policy, with a particular interest in the relations between elites and the wider society, and provides new insights into the complex continuities and discontinuities of modern German history. This volume offers a rich selection of essays that contribute to our understanding of the road to war, Nazism, and the Holocaust, as well as Germany’s transformation after 1945.
Frank Biess is Associate Professor for Modern German and European History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Homecomings. Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany, and is co-editing a volume on the comparative history of the European “postwar” after 1945.
Mark Roseman holds the Pat M. Glazer chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. His publications include A Past in Hiding, Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany, and The Wannsee Conference: A Reconsideration.
Hanna Schissler teaches modern history at the University of Hanover and is a Research Director at the Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig. Her publications include the edited volumes: The Miracle Years, A Cultural History of West Germany, and National Identity and Perceptions of the Past.
Contents
Introduction Frank Biess and Mark Roseman
PART I: GERMAN ELITES AND AN UNRULY SOCIETY
Chapter 1. Kulturkampf and Geschlechterkampf: Anti-Catholicism, Catholic Women, and Public Space Michael B. Gross Chapter 2. The 1923 Ruhr Crisis: The Limits of Active Resistance Conan Fischer Chapter 3. Political Violence, Gesinnung, and the Courts in Late Weimar Berlin Pamela E. Swett
PART II: GERMAN SOCIETY AND A VIOLENT REGIME
Chapter 4. Beyond Conviction? Perpetrators, Ideas and Action in the Holocaust in Historiographical Perspective Mark Roseman Chapter 5. The Dissolution of the Third Reich Hans Mommsen Chapter 6. The Search for Missing Soldiers: MIAs, POWs, and Ordinary Germans, 1943–45 Frank Biess
PART III: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN GERMANY'S FOREIGN RELATIONS
Chapter 7. The Kaiser and His English Relations Revisited John C. G. Röhl Chapter 8. Appeasement and Counter-Appeasement: Nazi–Soviet Collaboration 1939–1941 Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann Chapter 9. Imperialism as a Paradigm for Modern German History Uta Poiger Chapter 10. Americanization as a Paradigm of German History Mary Nolan
PART IV: SMOOTH SURFACES, MURKY DEPTHS: THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC
Chapter 11. The Radicalization that Never Was? Refugees in the German Federal Republic Ian Connor Chapter 12. Germany’s Special Path? Economic Sciences and Politics in the Federal Republic, 1945–1970 Alexander Nützenadel Chapter 13. Catholic Elites, Gender, and Unintended Consequences in the 1950s: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Role of Conservatives in the Federal Republic Mark Edward Ruff Chapter 14. Memory, Morality, and the Sexual Liberalization of West Germany Dagmar Herzog Chapter 15. The Modern Guild: Rotary Clubs and Bourgeois Renewal in the Aftermath of National Socialism S. Jonathan Wiesen Chapter 16. Fighting to Win the Peace: 08/15 and West German Memories of the Second World War Robert G. Moeller Chapter 17. Rehabilitating Fatherland: Race and German Remasculinization Heide Fehrenbach Chapter 18. Epilogue: Zeitgenossenschaft: Some Reflections on Doing Contemporary German History Hanna Schissler
Selected Readings Contributors Index