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Germany's Other Modernity

Author : Leif Jerram
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719076077
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Germany's Other Modernity written by Leif Jerram and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's Other Modernity explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that shaped lives, restructured society, and conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that formed the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic. Focusing on ordinary buildings, this study shows how material space could influence the lives of citizens, from the ways the elderly slept at night to the economy of the city as a whole. It also shows how we integrate the spaces of our lives into our explanations of politics, culture, and economics. It is aimed at those who want to understand urban modernity, Wilhelmine, and Weimar Germany, the use of space in social policy and politics, and the design of cities.

Germany’s other modernity

Author : Leif Jerram
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130297
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Germany’s other modernity written by Leif Jerram and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that shaped lives, restructured society, and conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that formed the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic. Focusing on ordinary buildings and the way they shaped ordinary lives, this study shows how material space could influence the lives of citizens, from the ways the elderly slept at night to the economy of the city as a whole. It also shows how we integrate the spaces and places of our lives into our explanations of politics, culture and economics. It is aimed at those who want to understand urban modernity, Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany, the use of space in social policy and politics, and the design of cities.

Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity

Author : Carl F. Lankowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity written by Carl F. Lankowski and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's institutional anatomy, its norms, and the spirits that animate it can only be properly understood if one takes into account such factors as its economic power and central position within Europe. This volume traces the difficult passage of German society to modernity, offering new perspectives on the "German question," largely characterized by the absence of key ideological underpinnings of democracy in the early modern period and a constitutional exceptionalism on the eve of the 20th century. The essays describe the organizational infrastructure and behavioral norms that account for the success of Germany's postwar economy and polity, but also register the tensions between the increasingly individualist outlook of post-1968 Germans and the country's highly organized and ritualistic decision-making structures, which often severely test the democratic foundations of the republic. However, Germany is not unique in its efforts to find a balance between traditional and modern forces that have shaped its history. This volume demonstrates that Germany's experience, past and present, teaches broader lessons that speak to the central concerns of our time: what are the historical precursors of and vital attitudes towards democracy? How much structural variation will be feasible in political economies embedded in Europe after the introduction of the Euro and in the context of economic and other globalization? The considerable insights into these questions provided by this volume celebrate the inspiration given to colleagues and students who have worked with Andrei S. Markovits, to whom it is dedicated.

Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany

Author : Itohan Osayimwese
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982919
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany written by Itohan Osayimwese and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany’s built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany’s colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies to abandon a centuries-long, highly ornamental architectural style in favor of structural technologies and building materials that catered to the local contexts of its remote colonies, such as prefabricated systems. As German architects gathered information about the regions under their influence in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific—during expeditions, at international exhibitions, and from colonial entrepreneurs and officials—they published their findings in books and articles and organized lectures and exhibits that stimulated progressive architectural thinking and shaped the emerging modern language of architecture within Germany itself. Offering in-depth interpretations across the fields of architectural history and postcolonial studies, Itohan Osayimwese considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. Since architectural developments in nineteenth-century Germany are typically understood as crucial to the evolution of architecture worldwide in the twentieth century, this book globalizes the history of modern architecture at its founding moment.

The Mad Square

Author : Jacqueline Strecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741740684
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Mad Square written by Jacqueline Strecker and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue focuses on the great aesthetic innovations that were made by artists throughout Germany in painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, film and the decorative arts in the years from 1910 to 1937. The inter-related, fluctuating nature of modernist movements such as Expressionism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity are emphasized as is the broader historical context in which the works were produced. The works chosen reflect the fascinating and complex ways in which artists responded to the forces of modernity and their passionate engagement with contemporary society, culture and politics. Exhibition: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 6 Aug - 6 Nov 2011.

Mobile Modernity

Author : Todd S Presner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231511582
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Mobile Modernity written by Todd S Presner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews. Treating the German railway as both an iconic symbol of modernity and a crucial social, technological, and political force, Presner advances a groundbreaking interpretation of the ways in which mobility is inextricably linked to German and Jewish visions of modernity. Moving beyond the tired model of a failed German-Jewish dialogue, Presner emphasizes the mutual entanglement of the very categories of German and Jewish and the many sites of contact and exchange that occurred between German and Jewish thinkers. Turning to philosophy, literature, and the history of technology, and drawing on transnational cultural and diaspora studies, Presner charts the influence of increased mobility on interactions between Germans and Jews. He considers such major figures as Kafka, Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, Sebald, Hegel, and Heine, reading poetry next to philosophy, architecture next to literature, and railway maps next to cultural history. Rather than a conventional, linear history that culminates in the tragedy of the Holocaust, Presner produces a cultural mapping that articulates a much more complex story of the hopes and catastrophes of mobile modernity. By focusing on the spaces of encounter emblematically represented by the overdetermined triangulation of Germans, Jews, and trains, he introduces a new genealogy for the study of European and German-Jewish modernity.

Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective

Author : Michael Meng
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178533705X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective written by Michael Meng and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections on the discipline’s theoretical, professional, and methodological dimensions, it explores Jarausch’s monumental work as a teacher and a builder of scholarly institutions. In this way, it provides not merely a look back at the last fifty years of German history, but a path forward as new ideas and methods infuse the study of Germany’s past.

Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity

Author : Kevin Repp
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674000575
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity written by Kevin Repp and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Repp combines detailed case studies of Adolf Damaschke, Gertrud Baumer, and Werner Sombart with an innovative prosopography of their milieu to show how leading reformers enlisted familiar tropes of popular nationalism, eugenics, and cultural pessimism in formulating pragmatic solutions that would be at once modern and humane."--BOOK JACKET.

Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945

Author : Bernhard Rieger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521093149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945 written by Bernhard Rieger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the obsession for new technology that swept through Britain and Germany between 1890 and 1945. Drawing on a wide range of popular contemporary writings and pictorial material, it explains how, despite frequently feeling overwhelmed by innovations, Germans and Britons nurtured a long-lasting fascination for aviation, glamorous passenger liners and film as they lived through profound social transformations and two vicious wars. Public discussions about these 'modern wonders' were torn between fears of novel risks and cultural decay on the one hand, and passionate support generated by nationalism and social fantasies on the other. While the investigation focuses on tensions between technophobia and euphoria, the book also examines the relationship between responses to technology and the differing political cultures in Britain and Germany before and after 1933. This innovative study will prove invaluable reading to anyone interested in comparative cultural history as well as the history of technology.

Germany and 'The West'

Author : Riccardo Bavaj
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785335049
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Germany and 'The West' written by Riccardo Bavaj and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.

Weimar Culture

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393322394
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Weimar Culture written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-12-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of German culture between the two wars, this book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Includes a new Introduction. 16 illustrations.

Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting

Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047909
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mobility and Modernity

Author : Steve Hochstadt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472109449
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Mobility and Modernity written by Steve Hochstadt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999-04-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that traditional beliefs about migration are really modern myths

Berlin Electropolis

Author : Andreas Killen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243625
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Berlin Electropolis written by Andreas Killen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Designing Modern Germany

Author : Jeremy Aynsley
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897448
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Designing Modern Germany written by Jeremy Aynsley and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German design and architecture reflects the country’s rich and fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic philosophy. Jeremy Aynsley now offers an in-depth study of this relationship between German history and design since 1870 and the complex principles underlying it. Designing Modern Germany reveals how German attitudes toward national identity, modernity and technology are crucial to understanding German design. Aynsley traces the historical development of German design, beginning in the 1870s with the first dedicated Arts and Crafts schools and stretching through to the famous institutions of the Bauhaus and the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung. He analyses the works of leading figures such as Peter Behrens and Hannes Meyer, through to Ingo Maurer and Jil Sander, and many others in design specialties including graphics, industrial and furniture design, fashion and architecture. He also offers the first consideration of the contrasting design traditions of East and West Germany between 1949 and 1989. Whether examining the pre-First World War department store, the National Socialist fashion system or East Germany’s official design culture, Designing Modern Germany reveals that German design significantly affected citizens’ daily lives. An essential read for designers and scholars of German design and history, Designing Modern Germany is a key text for understanding Germany’s major contribution to twentieth-century design.

Selling Modernity

Author : Pamela E. Swett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822340690
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Selling Modernity written by Pamela E. Swett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA historical study of modern German advertising, from the Imperial period through the 1970s, that explores mass consumption in modern society and the relationship between business mentalities, artistic creation, consumer behavior, and ideology. /div

Visions of Modernity

Author : Mary Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195070216
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Modernity written by Mary Nolan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Nolan's Visions of Modernity explores the contradictory ways in which German trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity.