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The Closed World of East German Economists
History is replete with examples of scientists and social scientists working under the yoke of oppressive regimes. In The Closed World of East German Economists, Till Düppe tells the story of a generation of economists whose entire careers coincided with the forty-one-year existence of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In a micro-historical fashion, he examines the world of East German economists through the formative episodes in the lives of five different economists from this “hope” generation. Using both the perspective of the actors as expressed in interviews and archival material unknown to the actors, the book follows East German economics from the early days of the acceptance of Marxism-Leninism through to its interaction with Western economics and its eventual dissolution following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It is fascinating insight into the challenges faced by economists in a unique period of European history.
American Jewry and the Holocaust
In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional decisions in New York and their effects on the JDC workers and their rescue efforts in Europe. He balances personal stories with a country-by-country account of the fate of Jews through ought the war years: the grim statistics of millions deported an...
Synthetic Socialism
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. Rubin investigates the connections between the communist government, its Bauhaus-influenced designers, its retooled postwar chemical industry, and its general consumer population. He argues that East Germany was neither a totalitarian state nor a niche society but rather a society shaped by the confluence of unique economic and political circumstances interacting with the concern...
Inside the Arlberg English
Inside the Arlberg - brings you the Arlberg home. Welcome to Inside the Arlberg. It is an expression of our love of mountains, it is the positive energy that the Arlberg gives us, it is that great feeling of playing in the snow – life happens offline! With this book, we invite you to find out more about the multi-faceted Arlberg region, so full of possibilities. And you might even want to give one or two of our suggestions a try. We love mountains and are thrilled to be able to share our love of the Arlberg with you. With warmth in our hearts, we hope you enjoy our book. Table of Content: History Ski Culture Villages Variety Accommodation Gastronomy Sustainability Reader Feedback Manifesto Contact Details Thank you Sources
An Archive of the Catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary. Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 magnum opus, Shoah, is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust—and in film history. Over the course of twelve years, Lanzmann gathered 230 hours of location filming and interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, which he condensed into a 9½-hour film. The unused footage was scattered and inaccessible for years before it was restored and digitized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In An Archive of the Catastrophe, Jennifer Cazenave presents the first comprehensive study of this collection. She argues that the...
Le chic français
Les débuts de la photographie de mode sont timides et peu audacieux. Si de nombreux magazines existent pour diffuser la mode au début du XXe siècle, le dessin y occupe une place centrale. Si dans les médias, la place de la photographie de mode connait un essor similaire à celui de la photographie en général, jusque dans les années 1920, les contraintes liées aux techniques d?impression ne favorisent pas son utilisation. Les poses restent statiques, les photographes travaillent en studio et les mises en pages sont rigides. Cette manière de figurer la mode est à mettre en correspondance avec le statut de la femme dans la société. Dans les années 1920-30, une ± Nouvelle vision? s...
The Hegemony of Growth
The first comprehensive historical overview of the OECD's role in the concept of economic growth becoming an international norm.
The People's Own Landscape
An exploration of East German tourist practices of the 1970s and 1980s provides new insight into the country’s environmental politics
Socialism with a Human Face
East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable levels. This book combines the insights of behavioural economics with archival research to peel away layers of rhetoric and assumptions about the East German economy and explore aspects of that underlying functionality. Through a series of cases studies that examine the establishment of socialist wor...
