UID:
almahu_9947414295302882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 363 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139052344 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe /
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Post-traumatic stress disorder and World War II: can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society? /
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Between pain and silence: remembering the victims of violence in Germany after 1949 /
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Paths of normalization after the persecution of the Jews: the Netherlands, France and West Germany in the 1950s /
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Trauma, memory, and motherhood: Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949 /
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Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945 /
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"Going home": the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war /
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Desperately seeking normality: sex and marriage in the wake of the war /
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Family life and "normality" in postwar British culture /
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Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in the 1950s /
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"Strengthened and purified through ordeal by fire": ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe /
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The nationalization of victimhood: selective violence and national grief in western Europe, 1940-1960 /
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Italy after fascism: the predicament of dominant narratives /
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The politics of post-fascist aesthetics: 1950s West and East German industrial design /
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Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521804134
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139052344
