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| | The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the Gdr:0803212585:Bathrick, David:eCampus.com |
 | | Bathrick compares oppositional culture in East Germany to radical cultures elsewhere, examines the complex political and cultural relations of East and West Germany, traces the anguished history of the East German avant-garde, and describes the troubled effort to develop a revolutionary theatrical tradition in East Germany. | | | The book also includes nuanced insights into the collapse of the East German political order in the late 1980s and more recent revelations about the collaboration of allegedly oppositional writers with the Stasi (state police). | | | The Powers of Speech: The Politics of Culture in the Gdr:0803212585:Bathrick, David:eCampus.com |
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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0803212585
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| | Bendix Fellows, 1998-99 |
| | This dissertation argues that the method and pace of German unification was determined by a political and economic culture peculiar to East Germany. | | | Zatlin shows how the legacy of socialism, and not the lure of capitalism, led East Germans to embrace the West German mark and political institutions. | | | Despite what most commentators have claimed, forty years of official anit-capitalist rhetoric and daily experience with the planned economy did not simply vanish along with the Berlin Wall. |
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http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/fellowship/fellows/bfel98-99.html
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| | Dr. Molly W. Johnson |
| | Her research demonstrates that sports, as a site where the political aspirations of the government and the personal and communal aspirations of citizens often coincided, contributed significantly to the emergence of a new socialist culture in East Germany. | | | In her research, Dr. Johnson explores the political, social, and cultural role of sports in communist East Germany. | | | Likewise, her study of sports also reveals some of the problems that ultimately led to the collapse of East Germany in 1989/1990. |
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http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/history/new_page_2.htm
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| | Culture of the German Democratic Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Though the government and the Stasi strictly controlled society, a culture of East Germany developed nonetheless. | | | With widespread censorship of literature, the media and the arts, political jokes were one of the main outlets for criticism of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). | | | On a more traditional level, the East German government celebrated the fact that Johann Sebastian Bach was born in East German territory, and spent a great deal of money converting his house in Eisenach into a museum of his life, which, among other things, included more than 300 instruments from Bach's life. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic
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| | "Buchenwald: Symbol and Metaphor for the Changing Political Culture of East Germany," Studies in GDR Culture and Society, 14/15 (1996) | | | "Buchenwald: Symbol and Metaphor for the Changing Political Culture of East Germany," 19th New Hampshire Symposium, Conway, NH, June (1993) | | | Teaching specialties: Twentieth Century Europe, Modern Germany, Holocaust |
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http://dmc.utep.edu/dhackett/bio.html
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99034558 |
| | Jazz, Rock, and Rebels examines diverging responses to American culture in East and West Germany by linking these to changes in social science research, political cultures, state institutions, and international alliance systems. | | | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Germany Civilization American influences, Popular culture Germany, Popular culture Germany (East)Subculture Germany, Subculture Germany (East)Race relations Germany History, Art and state Germany, Art and state Germany (East)Youth Germany Social conditions 20th century | | | In the first two decades of the Cold War, consumer culture became a way to delineate the boundaries between East and West. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/99034558.html
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| | Germany History of Germany Geography of Germany German People and German Culture |
| | The experiences during the Nazi era, a cosmopolitan and anti-nationalistic post-war education and especially the political 68ies movement created just the right tolerant atmosphere in Germany, which still is missing in some post-communist states. | | | The German language and the feeling of "Germanhood" go back more than a thousand years, but the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in 1871 in Versailles, when the German Empire, dominated by Prussia, was forged excluding Austria that was to remain a multi-ethnic empire for another 50 years. | | | Most German Protestants are members of the Evangelical Church in Germany. |
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http://www.anythingarkansas.com/arkapedia/pedia/Germany
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| | NEH Summer Seminar: Post-Wall Germany |
| | The program emphasized debates around parallels and differences between the two authoritarian systems in National Socialist Germany and the GDR and explore how critiques of GDR socialism have been used to advance West German political agendas. | | | "Germans and Foreigners" examines the status of different groups considered "foreigners" in Germany, including "guest workers" and asylum seekers, as well as the outbreaks of violence against them since unification. | | | Drawing on the rich academic and cultural resources of the Five College Area of western Massachusetts, each Institute provided twenty-five high school teachers the opportunity to work with scholars active in these debates and to study and discuss relevant materials produced in Germany: selected literary texts, film and video, news media, and the internet. |
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http://www.umass.edu/neh
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| | The Declaration of lndependence in Germany |
| | These fundamental differences in the political culture of Germany especially after the revolution which failed in 1848 and of the German Reich of 1871 as opposed to that of the United States hardly left any room for discussing thoroughly the ideas of the Declaration of Independence. | | | The Basic Law did not create a new political culture in Germany. | | | There appears to be a curious discrepancy in Germany between the attractiveness of America as the land of liberty and opportunity an the one hand and traditional concepts of political participation and deep-rooted foundations of the judicial and constitutional Order on the other hand. |
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http://www.dhm.de/magazine/unabhaengig/dippel_e.htm
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| | German culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This article is about the culture of the German speaking people in Europe, For an article of the culture of germany as a political state see: | | | Confederation of the Rhine, or have been been political units like | | | German culture is quite diverse as a result of the varied history of the German speaking people. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_culture
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| | German Cultural Forum, 01 email - German Cultural Foundation |
| | However, this can absolutely not be the position of the Federal Republic of Germany, being at present one of the left-wing Protestant atheist German Lutheran Church States – nor that of the individual federal states as superficial political institutions beyond all culture. | | | The result would inevitably be political corruption in the field of culture – and this we already have – in content as well as consequences: | | | Neither can the recognition of cultural activities in the original meaning of the word “culture” be undertaken by a political group gripped by corruption, but will sooner be derived from the fact that these extremely degrading things disappear from our society. |
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http://www.germanculturalforum.com/01_Email/0101_Email.htm
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| | East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Consequent waves of German settlements, which in subsequent centuries later included French Hugenots and Jews, gradually modified the originally Slavic composition of the land, except for the small community of Sorbs in Lusatia, and eventually most of what is now East Germany formed a large part of the historical Kingdom of Prussia. | | | The East German territory was reorganized into what is now the city of Berlin and five states, reconstituting political entities that had been abolished in 1950. | | | The German Democratic Republic (GDR) German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), informally known in English as East Germany, was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic
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| | German HISTORY - All Facts and Events |
| | Imperial Germany (Political Parties, The Economy and Population Growth, The Tariff Agreement of 1879 and Its Social Consequences, World War I, etc.) | | | For this reason, when discussing events since unification, Germans frequently refer to the territory of the former East Germany as the new or eastern Laender and call that of the former West Germany the old or western Laender. | | | For the sake of brevity and variety, the Federal Republic of Germany is often called simply the Federal Republic. |
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http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/history/bl_german_history.htm
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| | Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | During World War II, when Greece was occupied by Nazi Germany, 86% of the Greek Jews were murdered by the invading Axis and only a minority survived and most of them have emigrated to Israel. | | | Greece also has some Roman Catholics, mainly in the city of Patras, Corfu, and the Cyclades islands of Syros, Paros, Tinos, and Naxos; some Protestants and some Jews, mainly in Thessaloniki (which was once a major Jewish city until the Holocaust). | | | Greece under Metaxas is compared to Spain at the time, although it lacked the political violence associated with Francisco Franco's regime. |
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| | History 167 |
| | Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany (2000), excerpts from ch. | | | Behind it all lurks the question of "national identity," a question that posed severe cultural and political problems for a region in which state and "nation" had never coincided, and in which a variety of cultures and identities could claim with equal right to be "German." | | | Bismarck's creation of a new Empire committed to the principle of ethnic homogeneity ("nationality") in the heart of Central Europe left its older counterpart, the multi-ethnic Empire of the Habsburgs (a state with a similarly creative elite, with an increasingly dynamic economy, and a sizeable German population of its own) more and more an anomaly. |
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http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Anderson/H167
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| | Germany Info: Culture & Life: History: German Unification |
| | It was not until 1995 that Germany's major political parties found a way to reconcile the pre-unification Federal Republic's prohibition of abortion except under special circumstances and the German Democratic Republic's policy of allowing abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy. | | | Hoping to stave off economic collapse in the east, the government of the Federal Republic proposed a plan in early 1990 to make the West German Deutsche Mark the common currency of the two German states in anticipation of political union. | | | Implicit in the agreement on currency union and the concurrent plans for merging the economic and social welfare systems of the two German states was the understanding that Bonn would shoulder much of the financial burden of closing the economic gap between unified Germany's eastern and western states. |
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http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/history/unification.html
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| | Germany - Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
| | Destination Germany, this page gives you comprehensive information about many aspects of the country in its diversity: geography, economy, science, people, culture, environment, government and history. | | | With the unification of the two German states, the country became Europe's most populous nation and strengthened its role as a key member of the European Union and of the continent's economic, political, and security organizations. | | | The Federal Republic of Germany is located in the heart of Europe. |
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http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/germany.htm
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| | CCIS Research Associates |
| | Politicization of immigrant crime in advanced industrial countries; comparative immigration policy in Japan, Germany and the United States; role of global cities in integrating diverse migration streams; organized crime and migrant smuggling and trafficking into Japan | | | Mexican migration to the U.S.; Third World immigration to Japan and Spain; comparative studies of immigration policies; formation of general public attitudes toward immigration | | | Migration and return migration; ethnicity and nationalism; space and place; self and other; diasporas and transnationalism; iIdentity and culture; globalization and networks; narrative and life stories; oral history; ethnography; qualitative research; gender and feminism; cultural landscapes and memory; home and belonging; Greek-Americans and the second generation |
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| | Bacchus and Civic Order by B. Ann Tlusty |
| | The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany | | | In Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany, Ann Tlusty examines the social and cultural functions served by drinking and tavern life in Germany between 1500 and 1700, and challenges existing theories about urban identity, sociability, and power. | | | "This is social history of the best kind: it takes an unresearched area, and makes one see the culture of the early modern town in a new light. |
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http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/tlusty.html
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| | Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes |
| | Prof.Barba, a native of Livadz, Greece, who is the President of the Union for Aromanian Language and Culture of Freiburg, Germany. | | | To quote the Serbian art-historian Jelena Vesic: ‘ In the Balkans’ history, the Vlach people have become 'invisible' in the academic and public discourse due to their politically non-aggressive position, their ability to quietly exist beside other, more dominant, ethnic groups, and their tradition of economic migration for much of the year. | | | Useless to say that the Greek press, TV and Radio did not mention a word about this incident, and no official apologized although the Book Fair was opened by the Greek Minister of Culture E. Venizelos himself. |
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| | ps25syllabus.htm |
| | The uniqueness of nation-states and national political cultures is read against the homogenizing tendencies that increasingly affect contemporary European life, for example, European integration, globalization, Americanization, and immigration and “demographic deficits” in the world’s wealthiest countries. | | | The Collapse of Communist East Germany and German Unification | | | The New Federal German Republic: Democratic Political Culture, Liberal Institutions, “Ordinary Problems” |
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| | Oliver Kamm: Disinterring East Germany |
| | I am a particular admirer of the political culture of post-war Germany, not only because it is a humane and civilised constitutional democracy, but also because, being that type of polity, it is true to history as well - and in no country in the world is historical awareness more important. | | | The Federal Republic of Germany, conversely, has often been criticised for a dilatory approach to reparation for the Holocaust, and it's true that bringing functionaries of the Nazi regime to justice was nothing like as high a priority as it ought to have been after the war. | | | The founding myths of East Germany were as pernicious as the regime's totalitarian practice. |
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http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/disinterring_ea.html
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| | La French Page: Frogs, French culture, France |
| | If France is trying to build a political union in Europe, it's to further what it considers to be its own interests. | | | While a few writers still dare to speak up and are even admitted in print, the overall policy of the entire French press follows the Gaullist view of the world to a great extent, some with a more socialist flavour than others. | | | Let's step back and recap: France and Germany and a few others were ferociously opposed to the intervention in Iraq. |
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http://www.skovgaard.org/europe/france.htm
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99043348 |
| | Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Public opinion Germany (East) History 20th century, Political culture Germany (East) History 20th century, Germany (East) Politics and government | | | Using a wide range of often previously unexamined contemporary documents, the book investigates how ordinary East Germans experienced this extraordinary political and social upheaval, and how central policy decisions were translated into the reality of everyday life in the provinces. | | | This groundbreaking work examines East Germany's postwar development from the defeat of Nazism to the stabilization of a new socialist state by 1968. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol057/99043348.html
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| | Historical school of economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Prussia was the intellectual powerhouse of Germany and so dominated academia throughout the German speaking world, but also in the United States until about 1900, where the economics profession was led by men who had studied in Germany. | | | The Historical school of economics was a mainly German school of economic thought which held that a study of history was the key source of knowledge about human actions and economic matters, since economics would be culture-specific and not generalizable over space and time. | | | The German historical school largely controlled academia in Germany, as many of the advisors of Friedrich Althoff, head of the university department in the Prussian Ministry of Education from 1882 to 1907. |
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| | Iran |
| | Iran (the name was officially adopted in 1934) was again neutral during WWII but Britain and Russia established spheres of influence there to shut out Germany. | | | Iran is considered safe and secure for travellers, although it's best to keep abreast of world events that might have repercussions in Iran and to avoid political demonstrations and gatherings wherever possible. | | | Then in 2003 the country was hit by one of the catastrophic earthquakes to which it has historically been prone. |
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| | PKatzenstein |
| | Memberships: Council on Foreign Relations, American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, Conference Group on German Politics, Council of European Studies, American Association of University Professors, European Consortium for Political Research. | | | "Tombstones and Milestones: International Organization and the Growth of International Political Economy, 1968-1998," with Robert O. Keohane and Stephen D. Krasner (66 pp., September 1997). | | | The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996) was selected by Choice Magazine as one of the top ten books in the field of International Relations for 1997. |
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http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/Govt/faculty/PKatz.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Germany |
| | However, Germany soon faced numerous social and economic difficulties as it attempted to absorb millions of new citizens and blend different cultures and institutions. | | | Germany’s defeat in 1918 triggered political and economic chaos. | | | Germany has three major natural regions: a lowland plain in the north, an area of uplands in the center, and a mountainous area in the south. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761576917
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Who won World War II? |
| | The political climate in the US during the post-war period was such that it was very difficult to admit that the USSR had done anything right since its inception. | | | Let's not talk about beating Germany, because so many had to sacrifice their lives who should never have had to, and the same on the Allied side. | | | The biggest loser in the war was Britain, who lost her empire, foreign assets and was still paying for the cost of the war (mostly to the USA) decades later. |
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| | Political Economy of the Media - Marxism, Frankfurt School, and Critical Theory |
| | Political Economy of the Media - Marxism, Frankfurt School, and Critical Theory | | | Concentrated on political economy and economic relations between classes of people | | | were interested in examining the social relations that allowed people to exist in a capitalist society - hence the theory of historical materialism to look at issues surrounding the material culture of life, and from a historical perspective, to see how things change (or not) over time |
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