{"product_id":"the-miracle-years-9780691058207","title":"The Miracle Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures the lives of people - from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish 'guest' workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. This book shows how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Schissler is to be commended for assembling an overall excellent collection of essays that would otherwise have been located in scattered publications not easily accessible to a wider public. These fine offerings, demonstrating the latest in postwar research, are highly recommended.\"--Marion Deshmukh, History \"The essays engage in novel ways with popular culture, memory, gender, race, and the emergence of consumer society to provide a rich account of a society that did not simply repress its past, but selectively and fitfully reworked it.\"--Virginia Quarterly Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE xi  INTRODUCTION: Writing about 1950s West Germany by Hanna Schissler 3  PART ONE: THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST, NEW BEGINNINGS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL MEMORY 17  Introduction 19  CHAPTER ONE: The Hour of the Woman: Memories of Germany's \"Crisis Years\" and West German National Identity by Elizabeth Heineman 21  CHAPTER TWO: Survivors of Totalitarianism: Returning POWs and the Reconstruction of Masculine Citizenship in West Germany, 1945-1955 by Frank Biess 57  CHAPTER THREE: Remembering the War in a Nation of Victims: West German Pasts in the 1950s by Robert G. Moeller 83  CHAPTER FOUR: Mission to Happiness: The Cohort of 1949 and the Making of East and West Germans by Dorothee Wierling 110  PART TWO: STIGMA: \"OTHERS\" IN THE SHAPING OF WEST GERMANY 127  Introduction 129  CHAPTER FIVE: An Uneasy Existence: Jewish Survivors in Germany after 1945 by Juliane Wetzel 131  CHAPTER SIX: Heimat in Turmoil: African-American GIs in 1950s West Germany by Maria Hohn 145  CHAPTER SEVEN: Of German Mothers and \"Negermischlingskinder\": Race, Sex, and the Postwar Nation by Heide Fehrenbach 164  CHAPTER EIGHT: Guest Workers and Policy on Guest Workers in the Federal Republic: From the Beginning of Recruitment in 1955 until its Halt in 1973 by Ulrich Herbert and Karin Hunn 187  CHAPTER NINE: The Ever-Present Other: Communism in the Making of West Germany by Eric D. Weitz 219  PART THREE: THE PRESENCE OF THE ABSENT 233  Introduction 235  CHAPTER TEN: \"Normalization\" in the West: Traces of Memory Leading Back into the 1950s by Lutz Niethammer 237  CHAPTER ELEVEN: Film in the 1950s: Passing Images of Guilt and Responsibility by Frank Stern 266  CHAPTER TWELVE: Memory and Commerce, Gender and Restoration: Wolfgang Staudte's Roses for the State Prosecutor (1959) and West German Film in the 1950s by Richard McCormick 281  CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Creating a Cocoon of Public Acquiescence: The Author-Reader Relationship in Postwar German Literature by Frank Trommler 301  PART FOUR: THE EMERGENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY, MODERNITY'S CLAIMS AND LIMITS 321  Introduction 323  CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Recasting Bourgeois Germany by Volker R. Berghahn 326  CHAPTER FIFTEEN: 16 From Starvation to Excess? Trends in the Consumer Society from the 1940s to the 1970s by Arnold Sywottek 341  CHAPTER SIXTEEN: \"Normalization\" as Project: Some Thoughts on Gender Relations in West Germany during the 1950s by Hanna Schissler 359  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Cold War Angst: The Case of West-German Opposition to Rearmament and Nuclear Weapons by Michael Geyer 376  PART FIVE: THE AMBIGUITY OF AMERICAN INFLUENCES, POPULAR CULTURE AND THE BREAKING OF \"HIGH CULTURE'S\" HEGEMONY 409  Introduction 411  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: A New, \"Western\" Hero? Reconstructing German Masculinity in the 1950s by Uta G. Poiger 412  CHAPTER NINETEEN: Establishing Cultural Democracy: Youth, \"Americanization,\" and the Irresistible Rise of Popular Culture by Kaspar Maase 428  CHAPTER TWENTY: The \"Miracle\" of the Political-Culture Shift: Democratization Between Americanization and Conservative Reintegration by Diethelm Prowe 451  EPILOGUE: Rebels in Search of a Cause by Hanna Schissler 459  SELECTED READINGS 469  BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 479  INDEX 487","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403705033047,"sku":"9780691058207","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691058207.jpg?v=1730484300","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-miracle-years-9780691058207","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}