Streit um das Berliner "Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen" - die Vorgeschichte der Kontroverse Hat die Vertreibung von Millionen Deutschen aus Ostmitteleuropa nach 1945 in der Erinnerungskultur der ...Bundesrepublik einen angemessenen Platz gefunden? Manfred Kittel zeigt, dass Differenzierungen notwendig sind: In den 1960er Jahren zeichnete sich mit wachsender Kritik an der ostpolitischen Haltung der Landsmannschaften in Medien und intellektuellen Milieus eine zunehmende Entfremdung vom historischen deutschen Osten ab. Da aber noch alle Parteien um die Wählerstimmen der Vertriebenen rangen, blieb der erinnerungskulturelle Wandel begrenzt. Erst mit dem "Machtwechsel" in Bonn 1969 mehrten sich in Bund, Ländern und Kommunen die Symptome der Verdrängung.
Central banks have emerged as the key players in national and international policy making. This book explores their evolution since World War II in 20 industrial countries. The study considers the ...mix of economic, political and institutional forces that have affected central bank behaviour and its relationship with government. The analysis reconciles vastly different views about the role of central banks in the making of economic policies. One finding is that monetary policy is an evolutionary process.
A Companion to Post-1945 America Agnew, Jean-Christophe; Rosenzweig, Roy
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A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America.Covers society and culture, people and movements, ...politics and foreign policySurveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topicIncludes book review section on essential readings.
With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this
volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post--World War II Europe. Striking
a balance between close readings of ...individual texts and general surveys of larger
movements and underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe as
writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid identities. Aimed at a
general readership and guided by the idea of constructing bridges across national
cultures, this book maps for English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity
of Jewish writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish culture in
France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland,
and Russia.
How does the foreign policy of reunified Germany differ from the West German strong commitment to multilateralism?Multilateralism, German Foreign Policy and Central Europe focuses on German relations ...with the Czech Republic and Poland in order to investigate the changes and continuities in German foreign policy following the Cold War. After a theoretical introduction and an overview of multilateralism in German foreign policy. This book analyzes the 'high politics' of German foreign policy towards Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic and Poland, focusing on the main diplomatic agreements negotiated after 1945. The next two chapters address the legacy of the past in contemporary Czech-German and Polish-German relations, including the compensation for victims of the Nazi regimes and the rights of ethnic German minorities. Then the book shifts its emphasis to the future of German relations with its eastern neighbours, and EU enlargement in particular.This scholarly volume will interest all students and researchers of German foreign policy and Central European politics.
No Coward Soldiers Martin, Jr., Waldo E.
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In this exploration of the 20th-century civil rights and black power eras, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In freedom songs, ...in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold's exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.
Guiyou Huang traces the history of Asian American literature from the end of World War II to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Huang covers six genres: anthology, autobiography/memoir, ...drama, fiction, poetry, and short fiction; reviews major historical developments and social movements; explains key literary terms; and offers a narrative, A-to-Z guide of major Asian American writers and their works, plus their critical reception. This guide covers Canadian and U.S. authors with cultural and ethnic origins in East Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific Islands. It begins with a discussion of works written shortly after World War II that explore the personal and political impact of the conflict, such as John Okada's No-No Boy and Hisaye Yamamoto's short fiction. Huang then focuses on the 1980s, when Asian American literature blossomed into a diverse, heterogeneous field characterized by a variety of themes, genres, and styles, and writers with multiple ethnic and cultural backgrounds. He considers the work of novelists Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, the poets Ai and Agha Shahid Ali, and more than 100 additional authors, including Frank Chin, David Henry Hwang, Jessica Hagedorn, Nora Okja Keller, Bharati Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Chang-rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Divakaruni, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Huang points the reader toward further study for individual authors, and his selected bibliography suggests works of a more general nature, including literary criticism and histories, reference works, and collections of essays. Comprehensive though concise, clearly written but richly detailed, The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 is an invaluable resource.
Regional parties encourage government instability in Europe because they make extreme demands on governments for regional autonomy. These demands are different from the demands other parties make and ...are also more difficult to accommodate, because they require national governments to relinquish decision-making authority over certain issues, whereas the demands of other parties only require government to adjust their policies in some direction. Regional parties are also unlikely to compromise their demands because they do not have the tools available to them that other types of parties have. I support this argument through a statistical analysis of twenty-four democracies in Europe, showing that the presence of regional parties in government increases government instability and that the saliency of autonomy issues affects stability only if it is mediated through regional parties. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005
