Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands
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Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands
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Author : Jason B. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands written by Jason B. Johnson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with History categories.
In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north." The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Mödlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Mödlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Mödlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division.
Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands
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Author : Jason B. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands written by Jason B. Johnson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with History categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Eerie -- 1 Calamity, 1945-1952 -- 2 Elimination, 1952 -- 3 Fighting mood, 1952-1960 -- 4 Admonition, 1960-1961 -- 5 Bleak, 1961-1989 -- 6 Ass of the world, 1961-1989 -- Epilogue: Dream -- Bibliography -- Index
Local Lives Parallel Histories
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Author : Marcel Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-04-23
Local Lives Parallel Histories written by Marcel Thomas and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-23 with History categories.
The division of Germany separated a nation, divided communities, and inevitably shaped the life histories of those growing up in the socialist dictatorship of the East and the liberal democracy of the West. This peculiarly German experience of the Cold War is usually viewed through the lens of divided Berlin or other border communities. What has been much less explored, however, is what division meant to the millions of Germans in the East and West who lived far away from the Wall and the centres of political power. This volume is the first comparative study to examine how villagers in both Germanies dealt with the imposition of two very different systems in their everyday lives. Focusing on two villages, Neukirch (Lausitz) in Saxony and Ebersbach an der Fils in Baden-W�rttemberg, it explores how local residents experienced and navigated social change in their localities in the postwar era. Based on a wide range of archival sources as well as oral history interviews, the work argues that there are parallel histories of responses to social change among villagers in postwar Germany. Despite the different social, political, and economic developments, the residents of both localities desired rural modernisation, lamented the loss of 'community', and became politically active to control the transformation of their localities. The work thereby offers a bottom-up history of divided Germany which shows how individuals on both sides of the Wall gave local meaning to large-scale processes of change.
German Division As Shared Experience
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Author : Erica Carter
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-06-06
German Division As Shared Experience written by Erica Carter and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with History categories.
Despite the nearly three decades since German reunification, there remains little understanding of the ways in which experiences overlapped across East-West divides. German Division as Shared Experience considers everyday life across the two Germanies, using perspectives from history, literary and cultural studies, anthropology and art history to explore how interconnections as well as fractures between East and West Germany after 1945 were experienced, lived and felt. Through its novel approach to historical method, the volume points to new understandings of the place of narrative, form and lived sensibility in shaping Germans’ simultaneously shared and separate experiences of belonging during forty years of division from 1945 to 1990.
A Guide To Spatial History
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Author : Konrad Lawson
language : en
Publisher: Olsokhagen
Release Date : 2022-01-07
A Guide To Spatial History written by Konrad Lawson and has been published by Olsokhagen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-07 with History categories.
This guide provides an overview of the thematic areas, analytical aspects, and avenues of research which, together, form a broader conversation around doing spatial history. Spatial history is not a field with clearly delineated boundaries. For the most part, it lacks a distinct, unambiguous scholarly identity. It can only be thought of in relation to other, typically more established fields. Indeed, one of the most valuable utilities of spatial history is its capacity to facilitate conversations across those fields. Consequently, it must be discussed in relation to a variety of historiographical contexts. Each of these have their own intellectual genealogies, institutional settings, and conceptual path dependencies. With this in mind, this guide surveys the following areas: territoriality, infrastructure, and borders; nature, environment, and landscape; city and home; social space and political protest; spaces of knowledge; spatial imaginaries; cartographic representations; and historical GIS research.
Fighting The Cold War In Post Blockade Pre Wall Berlin
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Author : Mark Fenemore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-16
Fighting The Cold War In Post Blockade Pre Wall Berlin written by Mark Fenemore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-16 with History categories.
As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way or another by cultural competition. Western espionage agencies waged brazen but surreptitious covert warfare, while the Stasi fought back with a campaign of targeted kidnapping. This book takes seriously a complex borderscape, which narrowed but did not stem the flow of people, ideas and goods over an open boundary. Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts (or miniscule salami slices). While brinkmanship was orchestrated by the elites in Moscow and Washington, the effects of such intense psychological pressure were felt by ordinary Berliners, who sought to carry on with their mundane, but border-straddling everyday lives in spite of the ideological bifurcation.
States Of Division
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Author : Sagi Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
Release Date : 2014
States Of Division written by Sagi Schaefer and has been published by Oxford Studies in Modern Europ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Presents a new view about the division of Germany, challenging existing knowledge and helping to explain remaining divisions after unification.--Provided by publisher.
Making Spaces Through Infrastructure
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Author : Marian Burchardt
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Making Spaces Through Infrastructure written by Marian Burchardt and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with History categories.
Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.
Friendship Without Borders
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Author : Phil Leask
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-03-01
Friendship Without Borders written by Phil Leask and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-01 with History categories.
Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.
West Germany And The Iron Curtain
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Author : Astrid M. Eckert
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-02
West Germany And The Iron Curtain written by Astrid M. Eckert and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-02 with History categories.
West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. These border regions constituted the Federal Republic's most sensitive geographical space where it had to confront partition and engage its socialist neighbor East Germany in concrete ways. Each issue that arose in these borderlands - from economic deficiencies, border tourism, environmental pollution, landscape change, and the siting decision for a major nuclear facility - was magnified and mediated by the presence of what became the most militarized border of its day, the Iron Curtain. In topical chapters, the book addresses the economic consequences of the border for West Germany, which defined the border regions as depressed areas, and examines the cultural practice of western tourism to the Iron Curtain. At the heart of this deeply-researched book stands an environmental history of the Iron Curtain that explores transboundary pollution, landscape change, and a planned nuclear industrial site at Gorleben that was meant to bring jobs into the depressed border regions. The book traces these subjects across the caesura of 1989/90, thereby integrating the "long" postwar era with the post-unification decades. As Eckert demonstrates, the borderlands that emerged with partition and disappeared with reunification did not merely mirror some larger developments in the Federal Republic's history but actually helped to shape them.