| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Spektrum: publications of the German Studies Association ; v. 2 |
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Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Defeat and the legacy of war. The return of the undead : Weimar cinema and the Great War / Anton Kaes -- The work of art and the problem of politics in Berlin Dada / Brigid Doherty -- The secret history of photomontage : on the origins of the composite form and the Weimar photomontages of Marianne Brandt / Elizabeth Otto -- New citizens/new subjectivities. Mothers, citizens, and consumers : female readers in Weimar Germany / Kerstin Barndt -- Claiming citizenship : suffrage and subjectivity in Germany after the First World War / Kathleen Canning -- Feminist politics beyond the Reichstag : Helene Stöcker and visions of reform / Kristin McGuire -- Producing Jews : maternity, eugenics, and the embodiment of the Jewish subject / Sharon Gillerman -- Symbols, rituals, and discourses of democracy. Reforming the Reich : democratic symbols and rituals in the Weimar Republic / Manuela Achilles -- High expectations, deep disappointment : structures of the public perception of politics in the Weimar Republic / Thomas Mergel -- Contested narratives of the Weimar Republic : the case of the "Kutisker-Barmat scandal" / Martin H. Geyer -- Political violence, contested public space, and reasserted masculinity in Weimar Germany / Dirk Schumann -- Publics, publicity, and mass culture. "A self-representation of the masses" : Siegfried Kracauer's curious Americanism / Miriam Hansen -- Neither masses nor individuals : representations of the collective in interwar German culture / Stefan Jonsson -- Capital culture in decline : inflation and the distress of intellectuals / Bernd Widdig -- Weimar topographies. Defining the nation in crisis : citizenship policy in the early Weimar Republic / Annemarie Sammartino -- Gender and colonial politics after the Versailles Treaty / Lora Wildenthal -- The economy of experience in Weimar Germany / Peter Fritzsche |
| Summary |
In spite of having been short-lived, "Weimar" has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic's place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end-Germany's defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser's state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Social change -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Social conflict -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054610
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054639
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Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054657
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barndt, Kerstin.
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Canning, Kathleen.
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McGuire, Kristin.
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| ISBN |
1282727400 |
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184545846X (electronic bk.) |
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9781282727403 |
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9781845458461 (electronic bk.) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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