Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects : Rethinking the Polical Culture of Germany in the 1920s.

Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects : Rethinking the Polical Culture of Germany in the 1920s.

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...

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Main Author: Canning, Kathleen
Other Authors: Barndt, Kerstin, McGuire, Kristin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2010.
Series:Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association, vol. 2.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Political culture > Germany > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > Germany > History > 20th century.
Social conflict > Germany > History > 20th century.
Social change > Germany > History > 20th century.
Intellectual life
Political culture
Politics and government
Popular culture
Social change
Social conditions
Social conflict
Germany > Politics and government > 1918-1933.
Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Germany > Social conditions > 1918-1933.
Germany
History
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Table of Contents:
  • WEIMAR PUBLICS/WEIMAR SUBJECTS; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION. Weimar Subjects/Weimar Publics; Part I. Defeat and the Legacy of War; Chapter 1. The Return of the Undead; Chapter 2. The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada; Chapter 3. The Secret History of Photomontage; Part II. New Citizens/New Subjectivities; Chapter 4. Mothers, Citizens, and Consumers; Chapter 5. Claiming Citizenship; Chapter 6. Feminist Politics beyond the Reichstag; Chapter 7. Producing Jews; Part III. Symbols, Rituals, and Discourses of Democracy
  • Chapter 8. Reforming the Reich Chapter 9. High Expectations-Deep Disappointment; Chapter 10. Contested Narratives of the Weimar Republic; Chapter 11. Political Violence, Contested Public Space, and Reasserted Masculinity in Weimar Germany; Part IV. Publics, Publicity,and Mass Culture; Chapter 12. "A Self-Representation of the Masses"; Chapter 13. Neither Masses nor Individuals; Chapter 14. Cultural Capital in Decline; Part V. Weimar Topographies; Chapter 15. Defining the Nation in Crisis; Chapter 16. Gender and Colonial Politics after the Versailles Treaty
  • Chapter 17. The Economy of Experiencein Weimar GermanyBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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