Title & Author:

The Weimar Republic sourcebook / edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, Edward Dimendberg.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1994]
©1994

Description:

xx, 806 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Weimar and now ; 3

Notes:
A Centennial Book.
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-787) and index.
A new democracy in crisis. The legacy of the war ; Revolution and the birth of the Republic ; Economic upheaval: rationalization, inflation, and depression ; Coming to terms with democracy ; The rise of Nazism ; The struggle against Fascism -- Pressure points of social life. White-collar workers: Mittelstand or middle class? ; The rise of the new woman ; Forging a proletarian culture ; The Jewish community: renewal, redefinition, resistance -- Intellectuals and the ideologies of the age. Redefining the role of the intellectuals ; Critical theory and the search for a new left ; Revolution from the right ; Cultural pessimism: diagnoses of decline -- The challenge of modernity. Imagining America: Fordism and technology ; Berlin and the countryside ; Designing the new world: modern architecture and the Bauhaus ; Housing for the masses ; From Dada to the new objectivity: art and politics -- Changing configurations of culture. Literature: high and low ; Theater, politics, and the public sphere ; The roaring twenties: cabaret and urban entertainment ; Music for use: Gebrauchsmusik and opera ; New mass media: radio and gramophone ; Cinema from expression to social realism -- The transformation of everyday life. Visual culture: illustrated press and photography ; Visions of plenty: mass consumption, fashion, and advertising ; The cult of the body: Lebensreform, sports, and dance ; Sexuality: private rights versus social norms ; On the margins of the law: vice, crime, and the social order -- Biographies -- Political chronology.

Summary:

Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520067746 hardback
9780520067745 hardback
9780520067752 paperback
0520067754 paperback

Subject:

BMBF-Statusseminar
National socialism Sources.
Government, Resistance to Germany History 20th century Sources.
Nazisme Sources.
Résistance au gouvernement Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle Sources.
Government, Resistance to
Manners and customs
National socialism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Weimarer Republik
Nationalsozialismus
Politik
Quelle
Weimar-republiek.
National-socialisme Allemagne Sources.
Germany Politics and government 1918-1933 Sources.
Germany Social conditions 1918-1933 Sources.
Germany Social life and customs 20th century Sources.
Allemagne Politique et gouvernement 1918-1933 Sources.
Allemagne Conditions sociales 1918-1933 Sources.
Allemagne Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle Sources.
Germany
Deutschland
Germany History 1918-1933 Sources.
Germany Intellectual life 20th century.
Allemagne Vie intellectuelle 1918-1945 Sources.
Allemagne 1918-1933 (République de Weimar) Sources.
Germany History, 1918-1933

Form/genre:

History
Sources
Books.

Added entries:

Kaes, Anton, editor.
Jay, Martin, 1944- editor.
Dimendberg, Edward, editor.
Mazal Holocaust Collection.
Weimar and now ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 104707
Call No.: ID DD240.W3927; ID:94-B2035
Status: Available