Title Statements
- Full title :The Weimar Republic sourcebook / edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg.
Summary
Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.
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- Publication Date:©1994
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1994
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 806 pages ): : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520909601, 0520909607
- oclc:on1264180592
- LC Classification:DD240
- Dewey Decimal:943.085
Table of Contents
A new democracy in crisis. The legacy of the war ; Revolution and the birth of the Republic ; Economic upheaval: rationalization, inflation, and depression ; Coming to terms with democracy ; The rise of Nazism ; The struggle against Fascism -- Pressure points of social life. White-collar workers: Mittelstand or middle class? ; The rise of the new woman ; Forging a proletarian culture ; The Jewish community: renewal, redefinition, resistance -- Intellectuals and the ideologies of the age. Redefining the role of the intellectuals ; Critical theory and the search for a new left ; Revolution from the right ; Cultural pessimism: diagnoses of decline -- The challenge of modernity. Imagining America: Fordism and technology ; Berlin and the countryside ; Designing the new world: modern architecture and the Bauhaus ; Housing for the masses ; From Dada to the new objectivity: art and politics -- Changing configurations of culture. Literature: high and low ; Theater, politics, and the public sphere ; The roaring twenties: cabaret and urban entertainment ; Music for use: Gebrauchsmusik and opera ; New mass media: radio and gramophone ; Cinema from expression to social realism -- The transform…
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