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What does it mean for a society to be so closely identified with both inflicting and withstanding enormous suffering? This work reconsiders Germany's past according to the themes of pain and prosperity, focusing on such topics as welfare policy and urban history.

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"This highly important work uses the leitmotiv of pain and prosperity to illuminate German history, with excellent essays that explore how these notions shaped each other, and how they framed German conceptions of identity, memory, selfhood, nationhood, and the past." -Alon Confino,University of Virginia

Pain and Prosperity

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    A Paperback / softback by Paul Betts, Greg Eghigian

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/12/2002
      ISBN13: 9780804739382, 978-0804739382
      ISBN10: 0804739382

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What does it mean for a society to be so closely identified with both inflicting and withstanding enormous suffering? This work reconsiders Germany's past according to the themes of pain and prosperity, focusing on such topics as welfare policy and urban history.

      Trade Review
      "This highly important work uses the leitmotiv of pain and prosperity to illuminate German history, with excellent essays that explore how these notions shaped each other, and how they framed German conceptions of identity, memory, selfhood, nationhood, and the past." -Alon Confino,University of Virginia

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