ISBN:
9780226386492
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 517 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
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23 cm
Series Statement:
Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Olick, Jeffrey K., 1964 - The Sins of the Fathers
DDC:
909.0943
Keywords:
Collective memory History
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Germany (West)
;
Nationalism and collective memory Germany (West)
;
Guilt and culture Germany (West)
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Collective memory History
;
Nationalism and collective memory
;
Guilt and culture
;
Germany (West) History
;
Germany (West) Politics and government
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1945-1990
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Germany (West) History
;
Germany (West) Politics and government 1945-1990
;
Deutschland
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Placing memory in Germany -- The sociology of collective memory -- Prologues: the origins of West German memory -- The reliable nation. Bonn is not Weimar -- Expiation and explanation -- Germany in the West -- The return of the repressed -- The reliable nation -- The moral nation. Seeds of change -- The grand coalition and the wider world -- Social-liberal guilt -- The moral nation -- The normal nation. West Germany's normal problems -- The new conservatism -- The politics of history -- Beyond Bitburg -- The normal nation -- Conclusions. Epilogues: Berlin is not Bonn -- History, memory, and temporality.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226386522.001.0001
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