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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Reference works Ouvrages de référence |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eva Kolinsky; Wilfried van der Will |
ISBN: | 0521560322 9780521560320 0521568706 9780521568708 9780511999796 0511999798 |
OCLC Number: | 37761828 |
Description: | xix, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The citizen and the state in modern Germany / Peter Pulzer -- German national identity / John Breuilly -- Elites and class structure / Hans-Georg Betz -- Jews in German society / Andrei S. Markovits, Beth Simone Noveck and Carolyn Höfig -- Non-German minorities, women and the emergence of civil society / Eva Kolinsky -- Critiques of culture / Andrew Bowie -- The functions of 'Volkskultur', mass culture and alternative culture / Wilfried Van Der Will -- The development of German prose fiction / Martin Swales -- Modern German poetry / Karen Leeder -- German drama, theatre and dance / Michael Patterson and Michael Huxley -- Music in modern German culture / Erik Levi -- Modern German art / Irit Rogoff -- Modern German architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte -- German cinema / Martin Brady and Helen Hughes -- The media of mass communication: the press, radio and television / Holger Briel. |
Series Title: | Cambridge companions to culture. |
Responsibility: | edited by Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will. |
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Abstract:
A definitive guide to German culture from its emergence as a nation state in 1871 until the first all-Germany post-Reunification elections in December 1990. Fundamental yet complex questions are addressed in a sensitive fashion, and historical, political, legal and social institutions are explained, as are sexual, racial and class structures and divisions.
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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 Read more...
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