The Weimar Republic Sourcebook / Anton Kaes, Edward Dimendberg, Martin Jay.

Other author Dimendberg, Edward, editor.
Other author Jay, Martin, 1944- editor.
Other author Kaes, Anton, editor.
Format Electronic
Edition"A Centennial Book", Reprint 2020.
PublicationBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Copyright Date©1994
Description1 online resource (832 pages).
Supplemental ContentJSTOR
Subjects

SeriesWeimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism ; 3
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Legacy of the War -- 2. Revolution and the Birth of the Republic -- 3. Economic Upheaval: Rationalization, Inflation, and Depression -- 4. Coming to Terms with Democracy -- 5. The Rise of Nazism -- 6. The Struggle against Fascism -- Pictures -- 7. White-Collar Workers: Mitlelsland or Middle Class? -- 8. The Rise of the New Woman -- 9. Forging a Proletarian Culture -- 10. The Jewish Community: Renewal, Redefinition, Resistance -- Pictures -- 11. Redefining the Role of the Intellectuals -- 12. Critical Theory and the Search for a New Left -- 13. Revolution from the Right -- 14. Cultural Pessimism: Diagnoses of Decline -- Pictures -- 15. Imagining America: Fordism and Technology -- 16. Berlin and the Countryside -- 17. Designing the New World: Modern Architecture and the Bauhaus -- 18. Housing for the Masses -- 19. From Dada to the New Objectivity: Art and Politics -- Pictures -- 20. Literature: High and Low -- 21. Theater, Politics, and the Public Sphere -- 22. The Roaring Twenties: Cabaret and Urban Entertainment -- 23. Music for Use: Gebrauchsmusik and Opera -- 24. New Mass Media: Radio and Gramophone -- 25. Cinema from Expressionism to Social Realism -- Pictures -- 26. Visual Culture: Illustrated Press and Photography -- 27. Visions of Plenty: Mass Consumption, Fashion, and Advertising -- 28. The Cult of the Body: Lebensreform, Sports, and Dance -- 29. Sexuality: Private Rights versus Social Norms -- 30. On the Margins of the Law: Vice, Crime, and the Social Order -- Biographies -- Political Chronology -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Abstract Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.
LanguageIn English.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020).
Issued in other formPrint version: 9780520067752
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formSources.
ISBN9780520909601
ISBN0520909607
Standard identifier# 10.1525/9780520909601
Stock number22573/cats8474352 JSTOR

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