| Description |
xx, 806 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Weimar and now ; 3 |
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Weimar and now ; 3
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| Contents |
A new democracy in crisis. The legacy of the war ; Revolution and the birth of the Republic ; Economic upheaval: rationalization, inflation, and depression ; Coming to terms with democracy ; The rise of Nazism ; The struggle against Fascism -- Pressure points of social life. White-collar workers: Mittelstand or middle class? ; The rise of the new woman ; Forging a proletarian culture ; The Jewish community: renewal, redefinition, resistance -- Intellectuals and the ideologies of the age. Redefining the role of the intellectuals ; Critical theory and the search for a new left ; Revolution from the right ; Cultural pessimism: diagnoses of decline -- The challenge of modernity. Imagining America: Fordism and technology ; Berlin and the countryside ; Designing the new world: modern architecture and the Bauhaus ; Housing for the masses ; From Dada to the new objectivity: art and politics -- Changing configurations of culture. Literature: high and low ; Theater, politics, and the public sphere ; The roaring twenties: cabaret and urban entertainment ; Music for use: Gebrauchsmusik and opera ; New mass media: radio and gramophone ; Cinema from expression to social realism -- The transformation of everyday life. Visual culture: illustrated press and photography ; Visions of plenty: mass consumption, fashion, and advertising ; The cult of the body: Lebensreform, sports, and dance ; Sexuality: private rights versus social norms ; On the margins of the law: vice, crime, and the social order -- Biographies -- Political chronology |
| Summary |
Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section |
| Analysis |
Germany History, 1918-1933 |
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Germany History, 1918-1933 |
| Notes |
A Centennial Book |
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Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-787) and index |
| Subject |
Government, Resistance to -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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National socialism -- Germany -- Sources.
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National socialism -- Sources.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115193
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Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054657 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
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Germany -- Social life and customs -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054660 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
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| Author |
Dimendberg, Edward, editor
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Jay, Martin, 1944- editor
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Kaes, Anton, editor
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| LC no. |
93042108 |
| ISBN |
0520067746 |
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0520067754 |
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9780520067745 |
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9780520067752 |
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