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Title The German wall : fallout in Europe / edited by Marc Silberman
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Series Studies in European culture and history
Studies in European culture and history.
Contents PART I: RE-VIEWING THE BERLIN WALL *€Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution? /€Konrad H. Jarausch *€The Different Aesthetics of the Berlin Wall /€Olaf Briese *€Politics, Culture, and Media before and after the Berlin Wall /€Henning Wrage *€PART II: RE-NEWING BERLIN IN UNIFIED GERMANY€* Re-Capitalizing Berlin /€Janet Ward *€Interim Use at a Former Death Strip?: Art, Politics, and Urbanism at Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum /€Karen E. Till *€Jugendweihe: Revitalizing a Socialist Coming-of-Age Ceremony in Unified Berlin /€Barbara Wolbert * PART III: RE-SETTLING BERLIN'S OTHERS *€Neither Eastern nor Welcome: The Confused Lives of Berlin's Balkan Migrants, 1950-2000 /€Isa Blumi *€Class of 1989: Who Made Good and Who Dropped Out of German History?: Postmigrant Documentary Theater in Berlin /€Katrin Sieg * PART IV: RE-NEGOTIATING EUROPE'S CENTER *€On Italian Bridges: Navigating Rocks and Hard Places in Post-Wall Europe /€Lina Insana *€Breaking Down the Walls: The European Library Project /€B. Venkat Mani
Summary When the Berlin Wall opened unexpectedly on November 9, 1989, it marked a rupture of global significance. For Germany's national history the event has become Ơ₆ next to the defeat of 1945 ₆ the most significant date in collective memory. For Cold War Europe the Berlin Wall represented a symbol of border crisis and of difference and division. This interdisciplinary volume addresses multiple consequences of the fall of the Wall: looking back at the physical barrier, its demise, and how it has been mediated in film and television; detailing the processes of restoring and revitalizing the city and the country that had been torn asunder; recognizing the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities; and identifying how a new European identity may emerge 'after the Wall.' The anthology is targeted at scholars and advanced students in history, German studies, sociology, art history, and related fields
"When the Berlin Wall opened unexpectedly on November 9, 1989, it marked a rupture of global significance. For Germany's national history the event has become, next to the defeat of 1945, the most significant date in collective memory. For Cold War Europe the Berlin Wall represented a symbol of border crisis and of difference and division. This interdisciplinary volume addresses multiple consequences of the fall of the Wall: looking back at the physical barrier, its demise, and how it has been mediated in film and television; detailing the processes of restoring and revitalizing the city and the country that had been torn asunder; recognizing the new challenges of integrating socially and politically old and new minorities; and identifying how a new European identity may emerge "after the Wall." The anthology is targeted at scholars and advanced students in history, German studies, sociology, art history, and related fields"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Political culture -- Germany
Mass media -- Germany
National characteristics, German.
National characteristics, European.
Germans.
Europeans.
European history -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- Germany.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- Germany.
21st century history: from c 2000 -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- Germany.
Social & cultural history -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- Social History.
History.
Germans
Europeans
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mass media.
National characteristics, European.
National characteristics, German.
Political culture.
Social aspects.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990 -- Influence
Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990 -- Social aspects
Germany -- Social conditions -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005619
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001571
Subject Germany.
Germany -- Berlin.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Silberman, Marc, 1948-
ISBN 9780230118577
0230118577
9781349294312
1349294314