The Weimar Republic Sourcebook 1st Edition

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780520909601,0520909607

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0520909607
• ISBN 13: 9780520909601
• Author: Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg
  

A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler’s rise to power.

Table contents:

1 The Legacy of the War

2 Revolution and the Birth of the Republic

3 Economic Upheaval: Rationalization, Inflation, and Depression

4 Coming to Terms with Democracy

5 The Rise of Nazism

6 The Struggle against Fascism

7 White-Collar Workers: Mittelstand or Middle Class?

8 The Rise of the New Woman

9 Forging a Proletarian Culture

10 The Jewish Community: Renewal/ Redefinition, Resistance

11 Redefining the Role of the Intellectuals

12 Critical Theory and the Search for a New Left

13 Revolution from the Right

14 Cultural Pessimism: Diagnoses of Decline

15 Imagining America: Fordism and Technology

16 Berlin and the Countryside

17 Designing the New World: Modern Architecture and the Bauhaus

18 Housing for lhe Masses

19 From Dada to the New Objectivity: Art and Politics

20 Literature: High and Low

21 Theater, Politics, and the Public Sphere

22 The Roaring Twenties: Cabaret and Urban Entertainment

23 Music for Use: Gebrauchsmusik and Opera

24 New Mass Media: Radio and Gramophone

25 Cinema from Expressionism fo Social Realism

26 Visual Culture: Illustrated Press and Photography

27 Visions of Plenty: Moss Consumption, Fashion, and Advertising

28 The Cult of the Body: Lebensreform, Sports, and Dance

29 Sexuality: Private Rights versus Social Norms

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