Competing Germanies

Author : Robert Kelz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501739873

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Competing Germanies by Robert Kelz Pdf

Following World War II, German antifascists and nationalists in Buenos Aires believed theater was crucial to their highly politicized efforts at community-building, and each population devoted considerable resources to competing against its rival onstage. Competing Germanies tracks the paths of several stage actors from European theaters to Buenos Aires and explores how two of Argentina's most influential immigrant groups, German nationalists and antifascists (Jewish and non-Jewish), clashed on the city's stages. Covered widely in German- and Spanish-language media, theatrical performances articulated strident Nazi, antifascist, and Zionist platforms. Meanwhile, as their thespian representatives grappled onstage for political leverage among emigrants and Argentines, behind the curtain, conflicts simmered within partisan institutions and among theatergoers. Publicly they projected unity, but offstage nationalist, antifascist, and Zionist populations were rife with infighting on issues of political allegiance, cultural identity and, especially, integration with their Argentine hosts. Competing Germanies reveals interchange and even mimicry between antifascist and nationalist German cultural institutions. Furthermore, performances at both theaters also fit into contemporary invocations of diasporas, including taboos and postponements of return to the native country, connections among multiple communities, and forms of longing, memory, and (dis)identification. Sharply divergent at first glance, their shared condition as cultural institutions of emigrant populations caused the antifascist Free German Stage and the nationalist German Theater to adopt parallel tactics in community-building, intercultural relationships, and dramatic performance. Its cross-cultural, polyglot blend of German, Jewish, and Latin American studies gives Competing Germanies a wide, interdisciplinary academic appeal and offers a novel intervention in Exile studies through the lens of theater, in which both victims of Nazism and its adherents remain in focus.

Author : Heidi J. S. Tworek
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674240735

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News from Germany by Heidi J. S. Tworek Pdf

Winner of the Barclay Book Prize, German Studies Association Winner of the Gomory Prize in Business History, American Historical Association and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Winner of the Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide Honorable Mention, European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies To control information is to control the world. This innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire—and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. Information warfare may seem like a new feature of our contemporary digital world. But it was just as crucial a century ago, when the great powers competed to control and expand their empires. In News from Germany, Heidi Tworek uncovers how Germans fought to regulate information at home and used the innovation of wireless technology to magnify their power abroad. Tworek reveals how for nearly fifty years, across three different political regimes, Germany tried to control world communications—and nearly succeeded. From the turn of the twentieth century, German political and business elites worried that their British and French rivals dominated global news networks. Many Germans even blamed foreign media for Germany’s defeat in World War I. The key to the British and French advantage was their news agencies—companies whose power over the content and distribution of news was arguably greater than that wielded by Google or Facebook today. Communications networks became a crucial battleground for interwar domestic democracy and international influence everywhere from Latin America to East Asia. Imperial leaders, and their Weimar and Nazi successors, nurtured wireless technology to make news from Germany a major source of information across the globe. The Nazi mastery of global propaganda by the 1930s was built on decades of Germany’s obsession with the news. News from Germany is not a story about Germany alone. It reveals how news became a form of international power and how communications changed the course of history.

Author : Benjamin H. Dietrich
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 3631590229

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German Banking Structure, Pricing and Competition by Benjamin H. Dietrich Pdf

The German banking system is characterized by high fragmentation, low profitability and low foreign ownership. Main reason for this is its particular structure that can best be described as forced segmentation. This structure produces local banking markets. The book argues that local bank competition is not as pronounced as national concentration ratios predict and presents a bank pricing study which indicates that local banks, banks located in less densely populated areas and less productive banks tend to charge higher prices for retail bank services than banks that operate nationally. These results as well as lessons drawn from international reforms suggest that the German banking system could benefit from cross-pillar consolidation which promises to export competition from the national to local banking markets. Last but not least, the book analyzes political economy implications of banking reforms and provides suggestions on status quo resolution by identifying ways to facilitate reform implementation in the German banking system.

Author : Ulrich Thaidigsmann
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783832499235

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Increasing competition and changing customer behavior in the German financial services sector by Ulrich Thaidigsmann Pdf

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Within the last few years, dramatic changes took and still take place in the retail banking business. On the supply-side competition for cooperative banks is increasing due to various reasons. New competitors with different business models have entered the market. There is no doubt that they pose a serious threat to cooperative universal banks (which were the focus of this dissertation) and whose market share is declining constantly. Furthermore, non-banks and near-banks have to be considered in this respect, too, as these entities' business models are increasingly targeting customers of universal banks. On the demand side, changing customer behavior has accelerated transformation processes in recent years. An increased willingness to change suppliers can be noticed as consumers are placing more and more importance on price. A strong price awareness is changing market conditions in many business sectors in Germany. Decreasing customer loyalty forces universal banks to push sales activities and to intensify their personal relationship with the customer. The main objectives of this dissertation are the following: Work out a strategy within today s typical structure as a universal bank. Identify key success factors and evaluate this strategy for its chances for success. Derive the consequences for the future business model of a cooperative bank. Determine the change steps necessary to strengthen the competitiveness. Furthermore, the prerequisites of such a change process will have to be worked out. An inductive approach was chosen to achieve the aims of this thesis (Gill & Johnson). Firstly, an in-depth analysis of existing literature was carried out in order to gain an overview on current developments such as a) customer behaviour, and b) the competitive situation of the financial services sector. The results were to produce not only an explanation for current trends but also allow the prediction of future trends over the course of the next years. The environment in which cooperative banks are operating was described in detail. This approach provides a good basis to identify the relevant factors and to work out the necessary consequences for cooperative banks. In order to examine possible conclusions, interviews with 12 experts in the field were conducted. The target groups were CEOs of cooperative banks and representatives of cooperative bank associations. It is those people who are confronted with new challenges [...]

Author : Janet M. Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415807289

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Bilingual Pre-teens by Janet M. Fuller Pdf

This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories. Fuller chooses for this examination bilingual pre-teen children in Germany and the U.S. in order to demonstrate how local identities are embedded in a wider social world and how ideologies and identities both produce and reproduce each other. In so doing, she argues that while pre-teen children are clearly influenced by macro-level ideologies, they also have agency in how they choose to construct their identities with relation to hegemonic societal discourses, and have many other motivations and identities aside from social class membership which shape their linguistic practices.

Author : Bert Becker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030526047

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France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930 by Bert Becker Pdf

This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern and western shores, the ‘Asian Mediterranean’ was for almost a century a crucible of power and an axis of economic struggle for coastal shipping companies from various nations. Merchant steamers shipped cargoes and passengers between ports of the region. Hong Kong, the global port city, and the colonial ports of Saigon and Haiphong developed into major hubs for the flow of goods and people, while Guangzhouwan survived as an almost forgotten outpost of Indochina. While previous research in this field has largely remained within the confines of colonial history, this book uses the examples of French and German companies operating in the South China Sea to demonstrate the extent to which transnational actors and business networks interacted with imperial power and the process of globalisation.

Author : H. M. Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : SRLF:A0006734032

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Report on Agricultural Education in North Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, and the United Kingdom by H. M. Jenkins Pdf

Author : United States. Commission to the Paris exposition, 1878
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Exposition universelle de 1878
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026308010

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Iron and steel, D. J. Morrell. Ceramics, W. P. Blake. Glass and glass-ware, W. P. Blake. Forestry, F. P. Baker. Cotton culture, P. M. B. Young by United States. Commission to the Paris exposition, 1878 Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030036926998

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Heine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Bicycle racing
ISBN : 0976546019

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The Competition Bicycle by Jan Heine Pdf

Overzicht in woord en beeld van de geschiedenis van de racefiets.

Author : Ludwig Erhard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Germany
ISBN : 9781610163538

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Prosperity Through Competition by Ludwig Erhard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Dogs
ISBN : CORNELL:31924056924370

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Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Commerce
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069718207

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Morgan's British Trade Journal and Export Price Current by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julia Hauser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004290785

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German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut by Julia Hauser Pdf

In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions, Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses’ establishment in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106504848

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf