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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eli Rubin (Department of History, Department of History, Western Michigan University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.466kg ISBN: 9780198732266ISBN 10: 0198732260 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 04 February 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Planning Utopia: The Housing Program, Berlin, and Marzahn 2: Moonscape on the Mark: Socialism, Modernity and the Construction of a New World 3: Rainbows and Communism: Rupture in the Material, Sensory and Mnemonic Worlds of Marzahn's New Residents 4: Growing With Marzahn: Childhood, Community, and the Space of Socialism's Future 5: Plattenbau Panopticon: The Stasi, Surveillance, and PlattensiedlungenReviewsThe author's interdisciplinary approach to the history of this once prestigious project makes Amnesiopolis a fascinating read ... a very knowledgeable and well-written study that will capture the attention of academic and non-academic readers alike. Stefanie Eisenhuth, German History Eli Rubin has written a wonderfully inspiring study which will be of great interest to social and cultural historians of the GDR, to urban historians, critical geographers and anyone interested in the achievements and discontents of modernity more generally. * Joerg Arnold, Reviews in History * The author's interdisciplinary approach to the history of this once prestigious project makes Amnesiopolis a fascinating read ... a very knowledgeable and well-written study that will capture the attention of academic and non-academic readers alike. * Stefanie Eisenhuth, German History * The author's ambitious combination of theoretical frameworks and his clever exploration of GDR material culture after the end of the official state makes for an interesting and informative read that leaves room for further elaboration... Rubin's richly detailed volume is an important contribution to history and German Studies, particularly for scholars interested in architecture and urban design, Berlin, socialism, material culture studies, memory studies, and the GDR. Its provocative use of phenomenology and geography contributes to its novel approach and constructs new methodologies for everyday history... * Katrina Nousek, German Studies Review * Author InformationEli Rubin is an Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He received his PhD in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 2005 his dissertation was awarded the Fritz Stern Prize for the best dissertation in German History by the Friends of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His first monograph, Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic was published in 2008. From 2007-2009 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship in Germany as a fellow of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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