Description |
1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in German history ; v. 7 |
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Studies in German history ; v. 7.
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Contents |
Title page-Between Mass Death and Individual Loss; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I-Bodies; Chapter 1-How the Germans Learned to Wage War; Chapter 2-The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War; Chapter 3-Reburying and Rebuilding; Part II-Disposal; Chapter 4-Fanning the Flames; Chapter 5-Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945-1990; Chapter 6-Death at the Munich Olympics; Chapter 7-When Cold Warriors Die; Part III-Subjectivity; Chapter 8-A Common Experience of Death; Chapter 9-Laughing about Death? |
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Chapter 10-Death, Spriritual Solace, and AfterlifeChapter 11-Yizkor! Commenoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany; Part IV-Ruins; Chapter 12-The Imaginatioin of Disaster; Chapter 13-European Malencholy and the Inability to Listen; Chapter 14-A Cemetery in Berlin; Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Death -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Cemeteries -- Germany -- History
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Collective memory -- Germany
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Cemeteries
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Collective memory
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Death
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Manners and customs
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054660
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Germany
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Confino, Alon, editor.
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Betts, Paul, 1963- editor.
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Schumann, Dirk, editor.
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LC no. |
2007030712 |
ISBN |
9780857450517 |
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0857450514 |
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1282626922 |
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9781282626928 |
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9786612626920 |
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6612626925 |
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