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1 online resource (vi, 321 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Frank Biess -- Defining the postwar -- The persistence of "the postwar" : Germany and Poland / Norman M. Naimark -- Feelings in the aftermath : toward a history of postwar emotions / Frank Biess -- In the aftermath of camps / Samuel Moyn -- Public and private memories -- Nothing is forgotten : individual memory and the myth of the Great Patriotic War / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum -- Neither erased nor remembered : Soviet "women combatants" and cultural strategies of forgetting in Soviet Russia, 1940s-1980s / Anna Krylova -- Generations as narrative communities : on the private sources of official cultures of remembrance in postwar Germany / Dorothee Wierling -- Mass-mediating war : how movies shaped memories -- "When will the real day come?" War films and Soviet postwar culture -- Denise Youngblood -- "Winning the peace" at the movies : suffering, loss, and redemption in postwar German cinema / Robert G. Moeller -- Italian cinema and the transition from dictatorship to democracy / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- The reconstruction of citizenship -- War orphans and postfascist families : kinship and belonging after 1945 / Heide Fehrenbach -- Manners, morality, and civilization : reflections on postwar German etiquette books / Paul Betts -- From the "New Jerusalem" to the "decline" of the "New Elizabethan Age" : national identity and citizenship in Britain, 1945-56 / Sonya O. Rose -- "We are building a common home" : the moral economy of citizenship in postwar Poland / Katherine Lebow -- In the shadow of the bomb : military cultures -- The great tradition and the fates of annihilation : West German military culture in the aftermath of the Second World War / Klaus Naumann -- Soviet military culture and the legacy of the Second World War / Mikhail Tsypkin -- 1945-1955 : the age of total war / Pieter Lagrou. |
| Summary |
In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war's destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. From a range of methodological historical perspectives--military, cultural, and social, to film and gender and sexuality studies--this volume explores how Europeans came to terms with these multiple pasts. With a focus on distinctive national experiences in both Eastern and Western Europe, it illuminates how post. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe.
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Reconstruction (1939-1951) |
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Europe. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Collective memory -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Collective memory. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.
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Group identity -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Memory. |
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Citizenship -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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War and motion pictures. |
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Military art and science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Military art and science. |
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Europe -- History -- 1945-
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1945- |
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Group identity. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Citizenship. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Biess, Frank, 1966-
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Moeller, Robert G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Histories of the aftermath. 1st ed. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845457327 (DLC) 2010010761 (OCoLC)555673132 |
| ISBN |
9781845459987 (electronic book) |
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1845459989 (electronic book) |
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9781845457327 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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