Fallen elites : the military other in post-unification Germany / Andrew Bickford.
| Author/creator |
Bickford, Andrew, 1966- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, |
| Description | xviii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Contents | The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010043611 |
| ISBN | 9780804773959 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780804773966 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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