This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialization, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture--including national identity, class and race issues and the arts--from the nineteenth century to the present. There is a chronology and guide to further reading. Overall, the Companion offers an invaluable guide to the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany.
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"This book is informative, topically comprehensive, well researched, and clearly written. It may serve as a useful reference work to the modern German culture scene, or it may be adopted as a text book for a course in German Culture and Civilization... Charlotte M. Craig, Germanic Notes and Reviews
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This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written by experts in their respective fields, individual chapters trace developments in German culture including national identity, class and race issues and the arts from the nineteenth century to the present. There is a chronology and guide to further reading. Overall, the Companion offers an invaluable guide to the political and social processes that shaped modern Germany.
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On 10 May 1933, the Association of German Students staged the burning of more than twenty thousand books in the square in front of Berlin's opera house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Federal Republic, Third Reich, Weimar Republic, West German, East German, First World War, National Socialist, National Socialism, German Democratic Republic, New York, United States, Second World War, Cambridge University Press, Thomas Mann, Walter Gropius, Bertolt Brecht, German Jews, Berlin Wall, Nazi Germany, North German, Social Democrats, Wassily Kandinsky, Bruno Taut, Georg Simmel, Max Weber New!
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On 10 May 1933, the Association of German Students staged the burning of more than twenty thousand books in the square in front of Berlin's opera house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Federal Republic, Third Reich, Weimar Republic, West German, East German, First World War, National Socialist, National Socialism, German Democratic Republic, New York, United States, Second World War, Cambridge University Press, Thomas Mann, Walter Gropius, Bertolt Brecht, German Jews, Berlin Wall, Nazi Germany, North German, Social Democrats, Wassily Kandinsky, Bruno Taut, Georg Simmel, Max Weber New!
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- Effi Briest (German Edition) by Fontane on page 2, page 180, and page 308
- The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass on page 100, page 187, and page 316
- Society and Democracy in Germany by Ralf Dahrendorf on page 42, and page 84
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- Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871 - 1918 (European Studies) by Matthew Jefferies on 5 pages
- Catholicism, Popular Culture, And The Arts In Germany, 1880-1933 by Margaret Stieg Dalton on 4 pages
- German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust: Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address (Studies in European Culture and History) by Pascale R. Bos in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Edward James in Back Matter
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