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OverviewRecent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alon Confino , Paul Betts , Dirk SchumannPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Volume: v. 7 Weight: 0.581kg ISBN: 9781845453978ISBN 10: 1845453972 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 01 July 2008 Audience: General/trade , General 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 ContentsIntroduction Paul Betts, Alon Confino, Dirk Schumann PART I: BODIES Chapter 1. How the Germans Learned to Wage War. On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars Michael Geyer Chapter 2. The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War Richard Bessel Chapter 3. Rebuilding and Reburying: Emergency Cemeteries in Berlin after 'Zero Hour' Monica Black PART II: DISPOSAL Chapter 4. Fanning the Flames - Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany Simone Ameskamp Chapter 5. Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945 - 1990 Felix Robin Schulz Chapter 6. Death in Munich. The 1972 Olympics Kay Schiller Chapter 7. When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht Paul Betts PART III: SUBJECTIVITY Chapter 8. A Common Experience of Death: Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1923 Tim Grady Chapter 9. Laughing about death? `German Humor in the Two World Wars Martina Kessel Chapter 10. Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife. Between Nazism and Religion Alon Confino Chapter 11. Yizkor! Commemoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany Gabriel Finder PART IV: RUINS Chapter 12. The Imagination of Disaster. Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany Svenja Goltermann Chapter 13. European Melancholy and the Inability to Listen: Sebald, Politics, and Death Daniel Steuer Chapter 14. A Cemetery in Berlin Peter Fritzsche Notes on contributors Bibliography IndexReviewsUnderstood as a starting point for further inquiries into practices of mourning, burial and grief, this volume deserves broad attention, not least because it succeeds in embedding its case studies within a broad cultural, social and political history. * European History Quarterly Taken together, this volume is a welcome departure from the usual literature on memory and trauma which ignores what came before the war and treats what happened after only in relation to the Holocaust. This excellent volume enables us to look at the history of death as a whole beyond the break of 1945 and to see influences and continuities throughout the last century. The volume delivers on the promise of the introduction to open up new avenues for research and raise new questions and should be a welcome addition to the library of every scholar of modern Germany. * German Politics & Society [The volume] offers a significant contribution to theories of death and memory work in German Studies. [It] is clearly organized using theme-based sections, which lead the reader through material culture as well as psychological investigation; the essays are well-researched and cogently written. * German Studies Review Taken together, the volume provides more than the sum of its individual contributions and actually succeeds in offering new perspectives on a hitherto neglected topic. Several essays demonstrate persuasively the myriad ways in which the ghosts of the dead haunted the living in twentieth-century Germany...for anybody interested in the social and cultural history of death in Germany, this volume will be an indispensable starting point. * German History - offers a significant contribution to theories of death and memory work in German Studies. The volume is clearly organized using theme-based sections, which lead the reader through material culture as well as psychological investigation; the essays are well researched and cogently written. The volume is recommended for both the professional scholar and student alike.A * German Studies Review Taken together, the volume provides more than the sum of its individual contributions and actually succeeds in offering new perspectives on a hitherto neglected topic. Several essays demonstrate persuasively the myriad ways in which the ghosts of the dead haunted the living in twentieth-century Germany - for anybody interested in the social and cultural history of death in Germany, this volume will be an indispensable starting point.A * German History Author InformationAlon Confino is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has written substantially on nationhood, memory, and historical method. His new book is Foundational Pasts: An Essay in Holocaust Interpretation (CUP, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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