{"product_id":"between-mass-death-and-individual-loss-9780857451699","title":"Between Mass Death and Individual Loss","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Understood as a starting point for further inquiries into practices of mourning, burial and grief, this volume deserves broad attention, not least because it succeeds in embedding its case studies within a broad cultural, social and political history.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• European History Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Taken together, this volume is a welcome departure from the usual literature on memory and trauma which ignores what came before the war and treats what happened after only in relation to the Holocaust. This excellent volume enables us to look at the history of death as a whole beyond the break of 1945 and to see influences and continuities throughout the last century. The volume delivers on the promise of the introduction to open up new avenues for research and raise new questions and should be a welcome addition to the library of every scholar of modern Germany.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• German Politics \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[The volume] offers a significant contribution to theories of death and memory work in German Studies. [It] is clearly organized using theme-based sections, which lead the reader through material culture as well as psychological investigation; the essays are well-researched and cogently written.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• German Studies Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Taken together, the volume provides more than the sum of its individual contributions and actually succeeds in offering new perspectives on a hitherto neglected topic. Several essays demonstrate persuasively the myriad ways in which the ghosts of the dead haunted the living in twentieth-century Germany…for anybody interested in the social and cultural history of death in Germany, this volume will be an indispensable starting point.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• German History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePaul Betts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlon Confino\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDirk Schumann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: BODIES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e How the Germans Learned to Wage War. On the Question of Killing in the First and Second World Wars\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Geyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Shadow of Death in Germany at the End of the Second World War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRichard Bessel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Rebuilding and Reburying: Emergency Cemeteries in Berlin after ‘Zero Hour’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMonica Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: DISPOSAL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Fanning the Flames – Cremation in Late Imperial and Weimar Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSimone Ameskamp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Disposing of the Dead in East Germany, 1945 – 1990\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eFelix Robin Schulz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Death in Munich. The 1972 Olympics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKay Schiller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePaul Betts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: SUBJECTIVITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e A Common Experience of Death: Commemorating the German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1923\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTim Grady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Laughing about death? `German Humor´ in the Two World Wars\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMartina Kessel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife. Between Nazism and Religion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAlon Confino\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Yizkor! Commemoration of the Dead by Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGabriel Finder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: RUINS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e The Imagination of Disaster. Death and Survival in Postwar West Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSvenja Goltermann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e European Melancholy and the Inability to Listen: Sebald, Politics, and Death\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDaniel Steuer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e A Cemetery in Berlin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePeter Fritzsche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038904746327,"sku":"9780857451699","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451699.jpg?v=1750941880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/between-mass-death-and-individual-loss-9780857451699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}