Life after death : approaches to a cultural and social history during the 1940s and 1950s / edited by Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann.

ISBN:

9780511063688

9780511057359

9780511119637

9781139052344

9780521009225

9780521804134

Title:

Life after death : approaches to a cultural and social history during the 1940s and 1950s / edited by Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann.

Author:

Bessel, Richard.

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 363 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Contents:

Violence, normality, and the construction of postwar Europe / Post-traumatic stress disorder and World War II: can a psychiatric concept help us understand postwar society? / Between pain and silence: remembering the victims of violence in Germany after 1949 / Paths of normalization after the persecution of the Jews: the Netherlands, France and West Germany in the 1950s / Trauma, memory, and motherhood: Germans and Jewish displaced persons in post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1949 / Memory and the narrative of rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945 / "Going home": the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war / Desperately seeking normality: sex and marriage in the wake of the war / Family life and "normality" in postwar British culture / Continuities and discontinuities of consumer mentality in West Germany in the 1950s / "Strengthened and purified through ordeal by fire": ecclesiastical triumphalism in the ruins of Europe / The nationalization of victimhood: selective violence and national grief in western Europe, 1940-1960 / Italy after fascism: the predicament of dominant narratives / The politics of post-fascist aesthetics: 1950s West and East German industrial design / Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945?

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Subject Term:

Social change -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.

Social change -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century.

Social conflict -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.

Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe.

Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany (West)

Geographic Term:

Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Europe -- Ethnic relations.

Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations.

Europe -- Relations interethniques.

Europe -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle.

Allemagne -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle.

Allemagne (Ouest) -- Relations interethniques.

Added Author:

Bessel, Richard.

Schumann, Dirk.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2003

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Summary

This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented scale. It views the relationship of the violence of the 1940s to the apparent 'normality' and stability of the 1950s as a key to understanding the history of postwar Europe. While the history of post-war Germany naturally looms large in this collection, the essays deal with countries across Western and Central Europe, offer comparative perspectives on their subjects, and draw upon a wide range of primary and secondary source material.