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Life after Death : Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s.

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This collection of essays does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing viol...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bessel, Richard
Other Authors: Schumann, Dirk, Mauch, Christof, Lazar, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Europe.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Germany (West)
Social change > Europe > History > 20th century.
Social change > Germany (West) > History > 20th century.
Social conflict > Europe > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Psychological aspects.
Social change.
Social conflict.
Europe.
Germany (West)
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and World War II; 2 Between Pain and Silence; 3 Paths of Normalization after the Persecution of the Jews; 4 Trauma, Memory, and Motherhood; 5 Memory and the Narrative of Rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945; 6 "Going Home"; 7 Desperately Seeking Normality; 8 Family Life and "Normality" in Postwar British Culture; 9 Continuities and Discontinuities of Consumer Mentality in West Germany in the 1950s; 10 "Strengthened and Purified Through Ordeal by Fire."

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