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Divided, But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War
Tobias Hochscherf (Ed.)
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Paperback. The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order. This inner border made Germany a unique place to experience the Cold War, and the "German question" in this post-1945 variant remained inextricably entwined with the vicissitudes of the Cold War. Editor(s): Hoscherf, Tobias; Laucht, Christoph; Plowman, Andrew. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order. This inner border made Germany a unique place to experience the Cold War, and the “German question” in this post-1945 variant remained inextricably entwined with the vicissitudes of the Cold War until its end. This volume explores how social and cultural practices in both German states between 1949 and 1989 were shaped by the existence of this inner border, putting them on opposing sides of the ideological divide between the Western and Eastern ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782380993
SKU
V9781782380993
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99-15
About Tobias Hochscherf (Ed.)
Tobias Hochscherf is Professor of Audio-Visual Media at the University of Applied Sciences at Kiel, Germany. His research interests focus on European film and television cultures. He is author of The Continental Connection: German-speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1927-45 (Manchester UP, 2011) and has published widely in academic journals and edited collections.
Reviews for Divided, But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War
“[A] timely and important contribution to the current scholarship on the Cold War and the critical reassessment of Cold War history within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational framework…The editors are to be commended for promoting a comparative perspective in the individual essays themselves and through the thoughtful selection of topics from East and West German perspectives.” · Sabine Hake, University of ... Read more