Between Mass Death and Individual Loss

The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany

340 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.

• Reihe: Studies in German History
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
• ISBN: 9780857451699
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2011
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Dirk Schumann, Alon Confino, Paul Betts