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  • Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body Since World War II

    Edited by Kristoff Kerl, Detlef Siegfried, Robert P. Stephens, Olaf Stieglitz ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the many, varied historical entanglements between pop cultures and ecstatic, euphoric, and intoxicated bodies, focusing on the period between the 1950s and the 1980s. Charting a new course by bringing together pop culture studies, the history of bodies, and the history of emotions, the volume unites new historical perspectives on different forms of corporeal pleasure and offers ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid in Western Europe

    Edited by Knud Andresen, Sebastian Justke, Detlef Siegfried ...
    Series series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
    This edited collection examines how Western European countries have responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South Africa. The debate surrounding apartheid in South Africa underwent a shift in the second half of the 20th century, with long held positive, racist European opinions of white South Africans slowly declining since decolonisation in the 1960s, and the increase in the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Modern Lusts

    Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist

    by Detlef Siegfried ...
    As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman’s journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Between Marx and Coca-Cola

    Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

    Edited by Axel Schildt, Detlef Siegfried ...
    In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead sets out to show, for the first time, how international developments fused with national traditions to produce ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • European Cities, Youth and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century

    by Detlef Siegfried ...
    Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
    The late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of urban growth as migration swelled the population of European cities to new heights. The resulting problems of overcrowding and inadequate civic utilities prompted the governing elites to look for new planning solutions to address the needs of an increasingly urbanised society. At the same time young people were also increasingly ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The People's State

    by Mary Fulbrook ...
    What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Habermas

    A Biography

    by Stefan Müller-Doohm ...
    ‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only the world’s most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.’ Now, after many years of intensive research and in-depth conversations with contemporaries, colleagues and Habermas himself, Stefan Müller-Doohm presents the first comprehensive ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • West Germany and the Global Sixties

    The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978

    by Timothy Scott Brown ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • German National Cinema

    by Sabine Hake ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    German National Cinema is the first comprehensive history of German film from its origins to the present. In this new edition, Sabine Hake discusses film-making in economic, political, social, and cultural terms, and considers the contribution of Germany's most popular films to changing definitions of genre, authorship, and film form.The book traces the central role of cinema in the nation’s ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture

    Edited by John Sandford ...
    With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world.With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945

    Edited by David Crew ...
    Series series Rewriting Histories
    The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research accessible to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Cold War Cultures

    Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies

    Edited by Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas Lindenberger ...
    The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term “Cold War Culture” is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are ... Read more

    $26.99 USD