Jarausch / Geyer Shattered Past

Reconstructing German Histories
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2527-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany. He is the author of Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany (Princeton), The Unfree Professions, and The Rush to German Unity. Michael Geyer is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Well known for his research in military history and in theoretical and methodological problems in European and world history, he is a co-editor of Resistance Against the Third Reich, 1933-1990. He has published widely on war and violence, twentieth-century German history, as well as the history of globalization and is, most recently, the editor of The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jarausch, Konrad H.

Geyer, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ii

INTORDUCTION: Twentieth-Century Germany: Rethinking a Shattered Past 1

PART I: THE ECLIPSE OF THE MASTER NARRATIVES

1. A Return to National History? The Master Narrative and Beyond 37

2. The Collapse of the Counternarrative: Coping with the Remains of Socialism 61

3. Modernization, German Exceptionalism, and Post-Modernity: Transcending the Critical History of Society 85

PART II: RECONSTITUTING GERMAN HISTORIES

4. War, Genocide, Extermination: The War against the Jews in an Era of World Wars 111

5. The Totalitarian Temptation: Ordinary Germans, Dictatorship, and Democracy 149

6. From Empire to Europe: The Taming of German Power 173

7. Unsettling German Society: Mobility and Migration 197

8. A Struggle for Unity: Redefining National Identities 221

9. Defining Womanhood: The Politics of the Private 245

10. In Pursuit of Happiness: Consumption, Mass Culture, and Consumerism 269

PART III: LOOKING BACK AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

11. Survival in Catastrophe: Mending Broken Memories 317

12. The Century as History: Between Cataclysm and Civility 342

Index 371

Über Autor(innen)

Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany. He is the author of Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany (Princeton), The Unfree Professions, and The Rush to German Unity. Michael Geyer is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Well known for his research in military history and in theoretical and methodological problems in European and world history, he is a co-editor of Resistance Against the Third Reich, 1933–1990. He has published widely on war and violence, twentieth-century German history, as well as the history of globalization and is, most recently, the editor of The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany.