Mary Jean Fulbrook es una distinguida académica e historiadora británica cuyo trabajo profundiza en las complejidades de la historia alemana. Su extensa investigación abarca diversos campos, incluyendo la religión y la sociedad en la Europa de la modernidad temprana, la naturaleza de las dictaduras alemanas del siglo XX y el impacto duradero del Holocausto en Europa. Fulbrook también se dedica a la historiografía y la teoría social, examinando críticamente cómo se construye e interpreta la historia. Su obra académica ofrece profundas perspectivas sobre las intrincadas fuerzas sociales y políticas que han dado forma al continente europeo.
La compleja historia alemana ha dado origen a una larga serie de debates y muy distintos enfoques interpretativos. En este libro se ofrece al lector una síntesis precisa, desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros días, que aporta gran cantidad de material historiográfico en su exploración de los factores sociales, políticos y culturales que han definido el rumbo de esta nación.
Auschwitz often symbolizes the Holocaust's persecution and suffering, but focusing solely on one concentration camp presents an incomplete history. It fails to convey the complex ways individuals became entangled with perpetrators and overlooks the diverse experiences of victims who struggled, suffered, or survived. This book expands our understanding by exploring the lives of individuals across a spectrum of suffering and guilt, revealing the disconnection between official narratives about confronting the past and the reality that many Nazi perpetrators evaded justice. In the aftermath of 1945, the approaches to justice varied significantly among the successor states of the Third Reich. East Germany pursued Nazi criminals with severe sentences, while West Germany adopted a more lenient stance, aiming to move past the war. Austria largely ignored its Nazi ties until the 1980s, sparked by revelations about Kurt Waldheim's past. The book examines the shifting attitudes toward perpetrators and survivors through various trials and testimonials, emphasizing that the Holocaust is not merely history. The memorial landscape only scratches the surface of the enduring repercussions of the Nazi era. By highlighting the stories of individuals who remained largely unrecognized, the author situates their experiences within broader contexts of unprecedented suffering and explores the far-reaching consequences of violence across generations a
Written by examiners and subject experts, this title for AS Levels provides support for the OCR specification, providing students knowledge and understanding of the product. It features document study papers which provide opportunities to study 20th century history. It assists students when planning coursework to the specification guidelines.
The unification of Germany in 1990 has been the object of controversy and political debate. Mary Fulbrook charts a path through the relevant areas of debate, introducing the arguments and evaluating the evidence on a range of related topics.
This acclaimed textbook offers a comprehensive exploration of modern German history, crafted by a prominent scholar. It provides in-depth analysis and insights into significant events and themes, making it an essential resource for students and enthusiasts alike. The new edition features updated research and perspectives, ensuring relevance in the study of Germany's complex past.
The book brings home the extraordinary waves of transformation that have washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century sketching out the major general patterns of this change, and exploring some of the local themes and variations in different parts of Europe. The result is both illuminating and engrossing.
The collapse of the supposedly 'civilized' German nation into the 'barbarism' of Hitler's Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of 'the Germans' is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical processes - patterns of state formation, changing social structures - and the character of the individual self, as evidenced in changing thresholds of shame and embarrassment. In critical engagement with Elias's notion of the 'civilizing process', the essays collected here explore moments of excess and transgression, moments when the very boundaries of 'civilization' are both constructed and challenged. Inter-disciplinary contributions - on topics ranging from medieval laughter, cursing and swearing, through to music, the bourgeois self, and aspects of modern violence - highlight the complexity of inter-relations between the individual imagination and creativity, on the one hand, and the brute facts of political power and social structural inequalities, on the other; and develop new insights into the changing patterns of culture and society in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present.
The communist German Democratic Republic was founded in 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of post-war Germany. This book looks at its history and how people came to terms with their new lives behind the Wall. In the 1960s and 1970s, a fragile stability emerged characterized by 'consumer socialism', international recognition and détente. Growing participation in the micro-structures of power, and conformity to the unwritten rules of an increasingly predictable system, suggest increasing accommodation to dominant norms and conceptions of socialist 'normality.' These essays explore the ways in which lower-level functionaries and people at the grass roots contributed to the formation and transformation of the GDR ? from industry and agriculture, through popular sport and cultural life, to the passage of generations and varieties of social experience
Covering all major aspects of German history from the Weimar Republic through reunification, this new book offers a remarkably rich, insightful survey of a difficult and controversial subject. It integrates East German history more fully than any previous account, offering a precisely nuanced picture of life in the GDR and a compelling account of the roots of the 1989 revolution, and incorporates the latest research in social and economic history to deepen and vivify the political narrative. A unique advantage is its full, and fully accessible, examination of current historiographical debates in the field. Comprehensive, cogent, and judiciously balanced, The Divided Nation will become the standard reference on this important subject.
An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship