| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 363 pages) : illustrations |
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Publications of the German Historical Institute |
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Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe / Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann -- Post-traumatic stress disorder and World War II: can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society? / Alice Förster, Birgit Beck -- Between pain and silence: remembering the victims of violence in Germany after 1949 / Sabine Behrenbeck -- Paths of normalization after the persecution of the Jews: the Netherlands, France and West Germany in the 1950s / Ido de Haan -- Trauma, memory, and motherhood: Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann -- Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945 / Andrea Petö -- "Going home": the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war / Joanna Bourke -- Desperately seeking normality: sex and marriage in the wake of the war / Dagmar Herzog -- Family life and "normality" in postwar British culture / Pat Thane -- Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in the 1950s / Michael Wildt -- "Strengthened and purified through ordeal by fire": ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe / Damion Van Melis -- The nationalization of victimhood: selective violence and national grief in western Europe, 1940-1960 / Pieter Lagrou -- Italy after fascism: the predicament of dominant narratives / Donald Sassoon -- The politics of post-fascist aesthetics: 1950s West and East German industrial design / Paul Betts -- Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? / Alon Confino |
| Summary |
This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale. It views the relationship of the violence of the 1940s to the apparent 'normality' and stability of the 1950s as a key to understanding the history of post-war Europe. While the history of post-war Germany naturally looms large in this collection, the essays deal with countries across Western and Central Europe, offer comparative perspectives on their subjects, and draw upon a wide range of primary and secondary source material |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social change -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Social change -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century
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Social conflict -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe
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Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany (West)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Reconstruction (1939-1951)
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Ethnic relations
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Psychological aspects
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Social change
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Social conflict
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045759
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Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000541
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Europe -- Ethnic relations
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Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Europe
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Germany
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Germany (West)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bessel, Richard.
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Schumann, Dirk.
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| LC no. |
2002067421 |
| ISBN |
0511063687 |
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9780511063688 |
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0511057350 |
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9780511057359 |
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0511119631 |
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9780511119637 |
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9781139052344 |
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1139052349 |
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9780521009225 |
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0521009227 |
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9780521804134 |
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0521804132 |
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9786610160846 |
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6610160848 |
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0511302681 |
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9780511302688 |
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