Covering German foreign policy since the end of World War II, this book explores Germany's recovery from wartime defeat and destruction. Through a chronological series of case studies, it offers a document-based account of 60 years of German policymaking.
Joachim-Ernst Berendt and the postwar legitimation of jazz. Jazz and the divide between serious and entertainment music ; Dance as escape? ; Jazz greetings to and from the East? ; Jazz, race, and colorblindness -- Europeanizing jazz. The blues of German jazz ; Emancipation and t…
"Jazz has had a peculiar and fascinating history in Germany. The influential but controversial German writer, broadcaster, and record producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922-2000), author of the world's best-selling jazz book, labored to legitimize jazz in West Germany after its id…
Publisher description: The relationship between ethics, politics, and poetics is here examined by Wrighton, in the study of twentieth-century experimental American poetry. Relying upon the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Wrighton charts the development of ethical praxis …
Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights r…