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The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum
The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America – including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, the House of European History in Brussels, the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester, and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans – in order to show how museums reflect and shape cultural memory, as well as their cognitive, ethical, emotional, and aesthetic ...
"Beyond the Arsenal" - Das militärhistorische Museum in Dresden
Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Wohnen und Stadtsoziologie, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Dresden (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Stadt- und Architektursoziologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Stichworte: „Militärmuseum“, „Dresden“, „Libeskind“ sowie „Umbau“, sprechen für sich und geben dem Leser eine gewisse Vorstellung über die Architektur, welche in diesem Rahmen präsentiert und soziologisch analysiert werden soll. Die Untersuchung beschränkt sich hierbei auf das Symbolsystem, welches durch die Neugestaltung des Museums entsteht, sowie die an die Gesellschaft gerichtete Botschaft, welche dadurch vermittelt werden soll.
"Beyond the Arsenal" - Das militärhistorische Museum in Dresden
Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Wohnen, Stadtsoziologie, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Dresden (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Stadt- und Architektursoziologie, 49 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Stichworte: 'Militärmuseum', 'Dresden', 'Libeskind' sowie 'Umbau', sprechen für sich und geben dem Leser eine gewisse Vorstellung über die Architektur, welche in diesem Rahmen präsentiert und soziologisch analysiert werden soll. Die Untersuchung beschränkt sich hierbei auf das Symbolsystem, welches durch die Neugestaltung des Museums entsteht, sowie die an die Gesellschaft gerichtete Botschaft, welche dadurch vermittelt werden soll.
The First World War Galleries
Revisits World War I, drawing on the archives of the Imperial War Museum, including oral histories, photographs, works of art, personal correspondence and diaries, and artifacts from machine guns to military vehicles.
Disobeying Hitler
'A chilling look at Nazi Germany in collapse' Globe and Mail 'Excellent' Evening Standard | 'Fascinating' Ben Macintyre Raze Paris to the ground. Burn the bridges. Destroy all industry. These were just a few of the insane orders issued by Hitler in the closing months of the Second World War, as the Allies made their unstoppable advance on Germany. Had it not been for the determination and bravery of a few Germans – officers and ordinary civilians – who disobeyed Hiter, Europe might have been a scorched ruin. Many paid with their lives. Might Rommel have opened the Western Front to the Allies on 20 July 1944 had he not been shot at a few days earlier? Did Albert Speer single-handedly prevent the destruction of bridges, factories and towns? Did a Prussian general save Paris? In this compelling book, distinguished historian Randall Hansen explores the extraordinary phenomenon of disobedience-as-resistance and its effect on both the war and its aftermath. A gripping account of German resistance to Hitler’s tyranny in the last year of World War Two, in its 80th anniversary year.
German Social Democracy through British Eyes
On the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world. German Social Democracy through British Eyes examines the SPD's rise using British diplomatic reports from Saxony, the third-largest federal state in Imperial Germany and the cradle of the socialist movement in that country. Rather than focusing on the Anglo-German antagonism leading to the First World War, the book peers into the everyday struggles of German workers to build a political movement and emancipate themselves from the worst features of a modern capitalist system: exploitation, poverty, and injustice. The archival documents, most of which hav...
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser’s state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties.
