United City Divided Memories

Author : Dirk Verheyen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739144176

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United City, Divided Memories? by Dirk Verheyen Pdf

United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War-era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen looks at monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves. Verheyen's comprehensive and critical analysis is considered against the broader background of Germany's efforts at coming to grips with its dual twentieth-century totalitarian past. This book demonstrates that important elements of east-west contrast linger and complicate the city's efforts at crafting a more definitively future-oriented united identity. United City, Divided Memories? will stimulate debate among German studies scholars, as well as among those interested in German history and cultural studies.

Author : Katrina Sark
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000914214

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Branding Berlin by Katrina Sark Pdf

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, art, media, urban branding campaigns, and cultural diversity initiatives put forth by the Berlin Senate, and allows readers to understand the various changes that transformed the formerly divided city of voids into a hip cultural capital. The book examines Berlin’s branding, urban-economic development, and its search for a post-Wall identity by focusing on manifestations of nostalgic longing in documentary films and other cultural products. Building on the sociological research of urban branding and linking it with an interpretive analysis of cultural products generated in Berlin during that time, the author examines the intersections and tensions between the nostalgic views of the past and the branded images of Berlin’s present and future. This insightful and innovative work will interest scholars and students of cultural and media studies, branding and advertising, urban communication, film studies, visual culture, tourism, and cultural memory.

Author : Dirk Verheyen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 9780739118405

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United City, Divided Memories? by Dirk Verheyen Pdf

"Each topic is very thoroughly documented, weaving together historical information and current political debates surrounding memorial sites ... Highly valuable as a chronicle of the politics of memory. ... Recommended."---Choice, March 2009 --

Author : Anna Maerker,Simon Sleight,Adam Sutcliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351055567

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History, Memory and Public Life by Anna Maerker,Simon Sleight,Adam Sutcliffe Pdf

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past. Divided into two parts, the book addresses both the theoretical and applied aspects of historical memory studies. ‘Approaches to history and memory‘ introduces key methodological and theoretical issues within the field, such as postcolonialism, sites of memory, myths of national origins, and questions raised by memorialisation and museum presentation. ‘Difficult pasts‘ looks at history and memory in practice through a range of case studies on contested, complex or traumatic memories, including the Northern Ireland Troubles, post-apartheid South Africa and the Holocaust. Examining the intersection between history and memory from a wide range of perspectives, and supported by guidance on further reading and online resources, this book is ideal for students of history as well as those working within the broad interdisciplinary field of memory studies.

Author : David Lowe,Tony Joel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317912583

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Remembering the Cold War by David Lowe,Tony Joel Pdf

Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping international relations around the globe. Given the Cold War’s blurred definition – it has neither a widely accepted commencement date nor unanimous conclusion - what is to be remembered? This book illustrates that there is, in fact, a huge body of ‘remembrance,’ and that it is more pertinent to ask: what should be included and what can be overlooked? Over five sections, this richly illustrated volume considers case studies of Cold War remembering from different parts of the world, and engages with growing theorisation in the field of memory studies, specifically in relation to war. David Lowe and Tony Joel afford careful consideration to agencies that identify with being ‘victims’ of the Cold War. In addition, the concept of arenas of articulation, which envelops the myriad spaces in which the remembering, commemorating, memorialising, and even revising of Cold War history takes place, is given prominence.

Author : Marco Folin,Heleni Porfyriou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000175653

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Controversial Heritage and Divided Memories from the Nineteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries by Marco Folin,Heleni Porfyriou Pdf

What is the role of cultural heritage in multi-ethnic societies, where cultural memory is often polarized by antagonistic identity traditions? Is it possible for monuments that are generally considered as a symbol of national unity to become emblems of the conflictual histories still undermining divided societies? Taking as a starting point the cosmopolitanism that blossomed across the Mediterranean in the age of empires, this book addresses the issue of heritage exploring the concepts of memory, culture, monuments and their uses, in different case studies ranging from 19th-century Salonica, Port Said, the Palestinian region under Ottoman rule, Trieste and Rijeka under the Hapsburgs, up to the recent post-war reconstructions of Beirut and Sarajevo.

Author : John Alexander Williams
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131638541

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Berlin Since the Wall's End by John Alexander Williams Pdf

In the nearly nineteen years since the destruction of the Wall that divided East from West Berlin, Germans have struggled with the challenges of reunification. The task has been dauntingâ "unifying two countries with a common language but mutually hostile political and economic systems. Contrary to the optimistic predictions of 1989/1990, reunification has aggravated many of Germanyâ (TM)s problems within the larger context of globalization. Berlin, divided epicenter of the Cold War, Germanyâ (TM)s largest city and the capital since 1999, has been forced to confront the challenges of reunification with particular urgency. This book presents the work of six scholars who met at Bradley Universityâ (TM)s annual Berlin seminar in June, 2006 to discuss the recent past and the future prospects of the German metropolis. Two broad concerns--society and historical memory--emerged during the seminar and are reflected in these scholarsâ (TM) writings. The first section of the book assesses how Berliners have reunified the city through urban planning and social, economic and cultural policies. These chapters also speak to pressing contemporary issues of immigration, citizenship and cultural diversity. The essays in the bookâ (TM)s second part trace how historical memory has been shaped and politically contested in German culture, both in the divided nation and since 1989. Berlin Since the Wallâ (TM)s End casts light on a metropolis that has been scarred, but not destroyed, by the upheavals of recent history.

Author : John Franklin Jameson,Henry Eldridge Bourne,Robert Livingston Schuyler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCBK:C102617282

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The American Historical Review by John Franklin Jameson,Henry Eldridge Bourne,Robert Livingston Schuyler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106017987774

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Herf
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674416611

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Divided Memory by Jeffrey Herf Pdf

A significant new look at the legacy of the Nazi regime, this book exposes the workings of past beliefs and political interests on how--and how differently--the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism, from the anti-Nazi emigration of the 1930s through the establishment of a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in 1996.

Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004591361

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The Divided City by Nicole Loraux Pdf

An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for---if not invent---amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis. More precisely, what they agree to deny is that stasis---simultaneously partisanship, faction, and sedition---is at the heart of their politics. Continuing a criticism of Athenian ideology begun in her pathbreaking study The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux argues that this crucial moment of Athenian political history must be interpreted as constitutive of politics and political life and not as a threat to it. Divided from within, the city is formed by that which it refuses. Conflict, the calamity of civil war, is the other, dark side of the beautiful unitary city of Athens. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting, diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of democratic life. Voting appears as the process of dividing up, of disagreement---in short, of agreeing to divide and choose. Not only does Loraux reconceptualize the definition of ancient Greek democracy, she also allows the contemporary reader to rethink the functioning of modern democracy in its critical moments of internal stasis.

Author : Degruyter
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110230240

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2010 [catalog] by Degruyter Pdf

Reviews are an important aspect of scholarly discussion because they help filter out which works are relevant in the yearly flood of publications and are thus influential in determining how a work is received. The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, it is a unique source of bibliographical information. The database contains entries on over 1.2 million book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,820, mainly European scholarly journals. Reviews of more than 560,000 scholarly works are listed. The database increases every year by 60,000 entries. Every entry contains the following information: On the work reviewed: author, title On the review: reviewer, periodical (year, edition, page, ISSN), language, subject area (in German, English, Italian) Publisher, address of journal

Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917810

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The Divided City by Alan Mallach Pdf

In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.

Author : Sherry Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136629891

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Cities in Translation by Sherry Simon Pdf

All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal. Though living with the ever-present threat of conflict, these cities offer the possibility of creative interaction across competing languages and this book examines the dynamics of translation in its many forms. By focusing on a category of cities which has received little attention, this study contributes to our understanding of the kinds of language relations that sustain the diversity of urban life. Illustrated with photos and maps, Cities in Translation is both an engaging read for a wide-ranging audience and an important text in advancing theory and methodology in translation studies.

Author : Amos Elon
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Israel
ISBN : PSU:000025397666

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Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory by Amos Elon Pdf

A unique, interpretative biography of the eternal city.