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Format: XX, 403 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 0195072197

Content: In 1945, Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers that left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen anew. The housing crisis had been overcome and virtually all important monuments reconstructed, and the cities had reclaimed their characteristic identities. Everywhere there was a mixture of old and new: historic churches and town halls stood alongside new housing and department stores; ancient street layouts were crossed or circled by wide arteries; old city centers were balanced by garden suburbs laid out according to modern planning principles. In the Wake of War examines the questions raised by this remarkable feat of urban reconstruction. Jeffry M. Diefendorf explains who was primarily responsible for the reconstruction, what accounted for the speed of rebuilding, and how priorities were set and decisions acted upon. He argues that in such crucial areas as architectural style, urban planning, historic preservation, and housing policy, the Germans drew upon personnel, ideas, institutions, and practical experiences from the Nazi and pre-Nazi periods. Diefendorf shows how the rebuilding of West Germany's cities after 1945 can only be understood in terms of long-term continuities in urban development. The first comprehensive book in English on Germany's reconstruction, In the Wake of War examines postwar urban reconstruction from many perspectives, including architecture, historic restoration, housing, town planning and law, and it consistently interprets the features of German reconstruction within the context of continuous developments in these areas since the 1920s. This study will appeal to architects and urban planners as well as historians.

Language: English

Subjects: History , Art History

Keywords: Deutschland ; Städtebau ; Geschichte 1945-1960 ; Deutschland ; Stadt ; Wiederaufbau ; Geschichte 1945-1960 ; Deutschland ; Wiederaufbau ; Stadt ; Geschichte 1945-1960 ; Deutschland ; Städtebau ; Geschichte 1945-1960 ; Deutschland ; Wiederaufbau ; Städtebau ; Geschichte 1945-1951 ; Deutschland ; Wiederaufbau ; Stadtplanung ; Geschichte 1945-1951 ; architektur / moderne ; bauhaus ; de stijl ; Deutscher Werkbund 〈Künstlervereinigung〉 ; gartenstadt

URL: Verlagsangaben

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0603/92028145-d.html

Author information: Diefendorf, Jeffry M. 1945-

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Format: xiv, 365 Seiten

ISBN: 9780822354871 , 9780822355038

Series Statement: Social text books

Note: Literaturverz. S. [313] - 347 , Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8223-7754-2

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8223-7754-2

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Geography , Ethnology , Sociology

Keywords: Grenze ; Grenzgebiet ; Globalisierung ; Arbeit ; Migration

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Border-as-Method-or-the-Multiplication-of-Labor/

Author information: Mezzadra, Sandro 1963-

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Format: XII, 309 S. , graph. Darst.

ISBN: 069101177X , 0691011761 , 9780691011769

Content: Interests, Institutions, and Information examines the central factors that influence the strategic game of domestic politics. It shows that it is the outcome of this internal game - not fears of other countries' relative gains or the likelihood of cheating - that ultimately shapes how the international game is played out and therefore the extent of cooperative endeavors. The interaction of the domestic actors' preferences, given their political institutions and levels of information, defines when international cooperation is possible and what its terms will be. Several test cases examine how this argument explains the phases of a cooperative attempt: the initiation, the negotiations at the international level, and the eventual domestic ratification. The book reaches the surprising conclusion that theorists - neo-Institutionalists and Realists alike - have overestimated the likelihood of cooperation among states.

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Nationalstaat ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Politik ; Theorie ; Interessenpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Book review (H-Net)

URL: Table of contents

URL: Publisher description

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Book review (H-Net)

URL: Table of contents

URL: Publisher description

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b1x4-aa

URL: Verlagsangaben

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: XII, 371 S.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0880641754

Content: The Bauhaus is the most celebrated artistic institution of our time. In the fourteen years of its existence in Weimar Germany, the Bauhaus became a center where the ideas that would dominate art in the twentieth century clashed and became defined. The ideas forged within the school literally transformed our landscape. Almost nothing we read, wear, or live in is devoid of its influence

Content: Yet there has been a history of the Bauhaus. For the first time, Elaine S. Hochman sets the school in the context of the turbulent times to which it was born following the collapse of Imperial Germany in 1919. The Bauhaus emerged just as radical social and political upheavals swept through Europe in the wake of World War I, a product of the convulsions of an age when the contest between ideologies was fought with the fervor of a religious war. Left was pitted against right of the streets, and these battles penetrated the walls of the Bauhaus as well. They shaped the destiny of the fledgling school and those who taught there, including some of the most illustrious names in the world of modern art - Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky

Content: Hochman's access to the school's archives, previously off limits to Western scholars, provides an intimate day-to-day perspective of the school which reveals a different Bauhaus than the one projected by its latter-day champions in the U.S. This is the Bauhaus of its contemporaries, for whom the political and cultural implications were often more important than aesthetics

Language: English

Subjects: Art History

Keywords: Bauhaus ; Geschichte

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Format: X, 233 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 0807821047

Content: From 1933 to 1945, the Reich Chamber of Culture exercised a profound influence over hundreds of thousands of German artists and entertainers. Subdivided into separate chambers for music, theater, the visual arts, literature, film, radio, and the press, this organization encompassed several hundred thousand professionals and influenced the activities of millions of amateur artists and musicians as well. Alan Steinweis focuses on the fields of music, theater, and the visual arts in this first major study of Nazi cultural administration, examining a complex pattern of interaction among leading Nazi figures, German cultural functionaries, ordinary artists, and consumers of culture. One of the most persistent generalizations to emerge from research on Nazi Germany is the notion of a German artistic and cultural establishment at the mercy of a totalitarian regime determined to mobilize the arts for its own ideological purposes

Content: Steinweis argues that this generalization obscures a more complex reality. It overlooks continuities in the agenda of the German cultural establishment from the Weimar Republic through the Nazi period and presupposes a clearer distinction than actually existed between officialdom and the cultural elite, thereby overestimating the degree to which policy affecting artists originated outside the artistic world. Steinweis describes the political, professional, and economic environment in which German artists were compelled to function and explains the structure of decision making, showing in whose interest cultural policies were formulated. He discusses such issues as work creation, social insurance, minimum wage statutes, and certification guidelines, all of which were matters of high priority to the art professions before 1933 as well as after the Nazi seizure of power

Content: By elucidating the economic and professional context of cultural life, Steinweis also contributes to an understanding of the response of German artists to cultural Gleichschaltung, or "coordination," and helps to explain the widespread acquiescence of German artists to artistic censorship and racial and political "purification.

Note: Literaturverz. S. [217] - 226 , Zugl.: Chapel Hill., Univ., Diss., 1992

Language: English

Subjects: History , Musicology , Art History

Keywords: Deutschland ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Künstler ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Drittes Reich ; Kulturpolitik ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Steinweis, Alan E. 1957-

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Format: xvi, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 9780198836070 , 9780198836063

Content: "From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before. To say that mobile technologies, social media, and increased connectivity are having a significant impact on human rights practice would be an understatement. Modern technology (and the enhanced access it provides to information about abuse) has the potential to revolutionize human rights reporting and documentation, as well as the pursuit of legal accountability. However, these new methods for information gathering and dissemination have also created significant challenges for investigators and researchers. For example, videos and photographs depicting alleged human rights violations or war crimes are often captured on the mobile phones of victims or political sympathizers. The capture and dissemination of content often happens haphazardly, and for a variety of motivations, including raising awareness of the plight of those who have been most affected, or for advocacy purposes with the goal of mobilizing international public opinion. For this content to be of use to investigators it must be discovered, verified, and authenticated. Discovery, verification, and authentication have, therefore, become critical skills for human rights organizations and human rights lawyers. This book is the first to cover the history, ethics, methods, and best-practice associated with open source research. It is intended to equip the next generation of lawyers, journalists, sociologists, data scientists, other human rights activists, and researchers with the cutting-edge skills needed to work in an increasingly digitized, and information-saturated environment"--Publisher's website

Note: Emergence of digital witnesses , Open source investigation for human rights reporting : a brief history , Open source evidence and human rights cases : a modern social history , Prosecuting atrocity crimes with open source evidence : lessons from the international criminal court , Open source investigations and the technology-driven knowledge controversy in human rights fact-finding , Open source investigations for human rights : current and future challenges , How to conduct discovery using open source methods , How to preserve open source information effectively , Targeted mass archiving of open source information : a case study , How to verify and authenticate user-generated content , The role and use of satellite imagery for human rights investigations , Ethics in open source investigations , Digital human rights investigations : vicarious trauma, PTSD, and tactics for resilience , Open source investigations : understanding digital threats, risks, and harms , Open source information : part of the puzzle , Open source investigations for legal accountability : challenges and best practices

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe

Language: English

Subjects: Law

Keywords: Menschenrechtsverletzung ; Informationsquelle ; Soziales Netzwerk

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: XI, 325 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 9780807858349 , 9780807831366

Series Statement: Cultural studies of the United States

Content: Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he calls an "aesthetic of astonishment," focused on startling, graphic images of pain, injury, and prejudice. Traditional portrayals of the poor depicted stoic, passive figures of sentimental suffering or degraded but potentially threatening figures in need of supervision. Sensational modernists sought to shock middle-class audiences into new ways of seeing the nation's impoverished and outcast populations. The striking images these artists created, often taking the form of contorted or disfigured bodies drawn from the realm of the tabloids, pulp magazines, and cinema, represented a bold, experimental form of social aesthetics. Entin argues that these artists created a willfully unorthodox brand of vernacular modernism in which formal avant-garde innovations were used to delineate the conditions, contradictions, and pressures of life on the nation's fringes.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: USA ; Experimentelle Prosa ; Geschichte 1930-1940 ; USA ; Fotografie ; Geschichte 1930-1940 ; USA ; Kunst ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Weegee 1899-1968 ; Siskind, Aaron 1903-1991 ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Table of contents only

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005601.html

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Format: XII, 197 S.

ISBN: 0691016828 , 069101681X

Series Statement: Princeton studies in culture, power, history

Content: "As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence. In Settling Accounts, John Borneman explores the attempts by these aspiring democratic states to invoke the principles of the "rule of law" as a means of achieving retributive justice, that is, convicting wrongdoers and restoring dignity to victims of moral injuries. Democratic regimes, Borneman maintains, require a strict form of accountability that holds leaders responsible for acts of criminality. This accountability is embodied in the principles of the rule of law, and retribution is at the moral center of these principles. Drawing from his ethnographic work in the former East Germany and with select comparisons to other East-Central European states, Borneman critically examines the construction of categories of criminality. He argues against the claims that economic growth, liberal democracy, or acts of reconciliation are adequate means to legitimate the transformed East bloc states. The cycles of violence in states lacking a system of retributive justice help to support this claim. Invocation of the principles of the rule of law must be seen as a chance for a more democratic, more accountable, and less violent world." -- Book cover.

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science , Law , Ethnology

Keywords: Wiedervereinigung ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; Gerechtigkeit ; Osteuropa ; Demokratisierung ; Politische Verantwortung

URL: Table of contents

URL: Publisher description

URL: Table of contents

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URL: Verlagsangaben

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/97012041.html

URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/97012041.html

Author information: Borneman, John 1952-

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Format: 384 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9783035805062

Series Statement: Critical stances

Content: What forms does withdrawal—meaning either that which withdraws itself or which is being withdrawn—take in artistic and cultural practices? What movement(s) does it create or follow in specific contexts, and with what theoretical, material, and political consequences? The contributors of this book address these questions in a variety of writing practices, each focusing on specific scenes. These scenes are organized under three parts that structure the chapters: Passivity, Failure, and Refusal; Disappearance and Remembrance; Resilience and Resistance. Through interviews, artistic and literary texts, visual contributions, and academic texts, the authors explore various modalities of withdrawal ranging from a silencing of critical voices to a political and aesthetic strategy of refusal. The enforced disappearance of government opponents, for instance, may be implemented as a means of state violence, but withdrawing may also mean the decision not to participate in such violence, either through forms of passivity or refusal. Moreover, in the neoliberal logic of resilience, the relationship between subjective agency and imposition from the outside remains tense. The aim of this book is to tackle these tensions, as well as the ambiguities and complexities of withdrawal.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Kunst ; Ästhetik ; Philosophie ; Passivität ; Versagen ; Verweigerung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Author information: Walton-Jordan, Ulrike 1962-

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Format: 1 CD-ROM , Beih., User's guide und Security plug ; in Behältnis 29 x 23 x 5 cm oder 19 x 14 x 2 cm , 12 cm

Edition: CD-ROM ed., Version 1.0

ISBN: 9650706658

Note: Systemvoraussetzungen: PC compatible with 486 (minimum) double speed CD-ROM drive, an SVGA resolution monitor with 256 colors or higher and a mouse; Microsoft Windows 3.x or Windows 95; 4 MB of RAM (minimum); 10 MB of hard disk space; a sound card and speakers are required in order to hear audio recordings

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Judentum ; Wörterbuch ; CD-ROM ; Jüdische Kunst