Author: Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Mitteilungen Des Rheinischen Vereins Für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz
Author: Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930
Author: Geoff Eley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Bold new essays on Germany's critical Kaiserreich period.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Bold new essays on Germany's critical Kaiserreich period.
A Greener Vision of Home
Author: William H. Rollins
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472108091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The story of a successful citizens' movement to protect the land and encourage a culture of environmental respect in pre-World War I Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472108091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The story of a successful citizens' movement to protect the land and encourage a culture of environmental respect in pre-World War I Germany
Germany's Transient Pasts
Author: Rudy J. Koshar
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Over the course of the twentieth century, Germans have venerated and maintained a variety of historical buildings--from medieval fortresses and cathedrals to urban districts and nineteenth-century working-class housing. But the practice of historic preservation has sometimes proven controversial, as different groups of Germans have sought to use historical architecture to represent competing versions of their nation's history. Transient Pasts is the first book to examine the role that the historic preservation movement has played in German cultural history and memory from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1970s. Focusing on key public debates over historic preservation, Rudy Koshar charts a trajectory of cultural politics in which historical architecture both facilitated and limited Germans' efforts to identify as a nation. He demonstrates that historical buildings and monuments have served as enduring symbols of national history in a country scarred by the traumas of two world wars, Nazism, the Holocaust, and political division. His findings challenge both the widely accepted argument that Germans have constantly repressed their past and the contention that Germany's intense public engagement with history since reunification is unprecedented.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Over the course of the twentieth century, Germans have venerated and maintained a variety of historical buildings--from medieval fortresses and cathedrals to urban districts and nineteenth-century working-class housing. But the practice of historic preservation has sometimes proven controversial, as different groups of Germans have sought to use historical architecture to represent competing versions of their nation's history. Transient Pasts is the first book to examine the role that the historic preservation movement has played in German cultural history and memory from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1970s. Focusing on key public debates over historic preservation, Rudy Koshar charts a trajectory of cultural politics in which historical architecture both facilitated and limited Germans' efforts to identify as a nation. He demonstrates that historical buildings and monuments have served as enduring symbols of national history in a country scarred by the traumas of two world wars, Nazism, the Holocaust, and political division. His findings challenge both the widely accepted argument that Germans have constantly repressed their past and the contention that Germany's intense public engagement with history since reunification is unprecedented.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Imagining the Nation in Nature
Author: Thomas M. LEKAN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
One of the most powerful nationalist ideas in modern Europe is the assertion that there is a link between people and their landscape. Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era to illuminate the relationship between environmental reform and the cultural construction of national identity. In the late nineteenth century, anxieties about national character infused ecological concerns about industrialization, spurring landscape preservationists to protect the natural environment. In the Rhineland's scenic rivers, forests, and natural landmarks, they saw Germany as a timeless and organic nation rather than a recently patchworked political construct. Landscape preservation also served conservative social ends during a period of rapid modernization, as outdoor pursuits were promoted to redirect class-conscious factory workers and unruly youth from "crass materialism" to the German homeland. Lekan's examination of Nazi environmental policy challenges recent work on the "green" Nazis by showing that the Third Reich systematically subordinated environmental concerns to war mobilization and racial hygiene. This book is an original contribution not only to studies of national identity in modern Germany but also to the growing field of European environmental history. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Nature's Homelands: The Origins of Landscape Preservation, 1885-1914 2. The Militarization of Nature and Heimat, 1914-1923 3. The Landscape of Modernity in theWeimar Era 4. From Landscape to Lebensraum: Race and Environment under Nazism 5. Constructing Nature in the Third Reich Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Sources Acknowledgments Index Writing squarely within the idiom of the 'invented tradition' and the 'imagined nation,' Thomas Lekan argues that in the wake of belated unification and at a time of rapid industrialization, the German landscape came to be seen as a touchstone of national identity. He questions the idea that those engaged in landscape preservation were simply 'antimodern,' and he challenges both scholars who have seen a straightforward continuity from pre-1933 preservationist sentiment to Nazism and those who have made exaggerated claims for the Third Reich as the progenitor of modern green politics. This is a welcome contribution to the literature on local and national identity, joining works by Celia Applegate and Alon Confino, and on the environmental history of modern Germany. Both scholarly and original, Imagining the Nation in Nature is an impressive achievement. --David Blackbourn, Harvard University This important and timely book contributes to our understanding of German identity as well as to modern concepts of environmentalism and nature. Lekan's valuable contribution elucidates the modern, technocratic, and therapeutic vision of preservation that linked Weimar and the Third Reich. His analysis of Nazi bio-nature is significant and thought-provoking. --Alon Confino, University of Virginia
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
One of the most powerful nationalist ideas in modern Europe is the assertion that there is a link between people and their landscape. Focusing on the heart of German romanticism, the Rhineland, Thomas Lekan examines nature protection activities from Wilhelmine Germany through the end of the Nazi era to illuminate the relationship between environmental reform and the cultural construction of national identity. In the late nineteenth century, anxieties about national character infused ecological concerns about industrialization, spurring landscape preservationists to protect the natural environment. In the Rhineland's scenic rivers, forests, and natural landmarks, they saw Germany as a timeless and organic nation rather than a recently patchworked political construct. Landscape preservation also served conservative social ends during a period of rapid modernization, as outdoor pursuits were promoted to redirect class-conscious factory workers and unruly youth from "crass materialism" to the German homeland. Lekan's examination of Nazi environmental policy challenges recent work on the "green" Nazis by showing that the Third Reich systematically subordinated environmental concerns to war mobilization and racial hygiene. This book is an original contribution not only to studies of national identity in modern Germany but also to the growing field of European environmental history. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Nature's Homelands: The Origins of Landscape Preservation, 1885-1914 2. The Militarization of Nature and Heimat, 1914-1923 3. The Landscape of Modernity in theWeimar Era 4. From Landscape to Lebensraum: Race and Environment under Nazism 5. Constructing Nature in the Third Reich Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Sources Acknowledgments Index Writing squarely within the idiom of the 'invented tradition' and the 'imagined nation,' Thomas Lekan argues that in the wake of belated unification and at a time of rapid industrialization, the German landscape came to be seen as a touchstone of national identity. He questions the idea that those engaged in landscape preservation were simply 'antimodern,' and he challenges both scholars who have seen a straightforward continuity from pre-1933 preservationist sentiment to Nazism and those who have made exaggerated claims for the Third Reich as the progenitor of modern green politics. This is a welcome contribution to the literature on local and national identity, joining works by Celia Applegate and Alon Confino, and on the environmental history of modern Germany. Both scholarly and original, Imagining the Nation in Nature is an impressive achievement. --David Blackbourn, Harvard University This important and timely book contributes to our understanding of German identity as well as to modern concepts of environmentalism and nature. Lekan's valuable contribution elucidates the modern, technocratic, and therapeutic vision of preservation that linked Weimar and the Third Reich. His analysis of Nazi bio-nature is significant and thought-provoking. --Alon Confino, University of Virginia
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1901-1914
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Publisher:
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Fagus
Author: Annemarie Jaeggi
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568981758
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Fagus Shoe-Last factory in Germany, designed by Walter Gropius in 1911, was the first large structure to use a steel frame and a facade almost entirely of glass. This revolutionary technique was a seminal point in modern architecture.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568981758
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Fagus Shoe-Last factory in Germany, designed by Walter Gropius in 1911, was the first large structure to use a steel frame and a facade almost entirely of glass. This revolutionary technique was a seminal point in modern architecture.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature [1901-14].
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Publisher:
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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The Jewish Year
Author: Shachar
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004666060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004666060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description