Books written by Paul Betts
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Pain and Prosperity: Reconsidering Twentieth-century German History
An die Damen und Herren Reichstagsabgeordneten , an die Behörden und für die Gerichte bestimmt , ” FUB Sammlung Rott , Box 138 , Li / ia . 120. Personal communication from Dr. Lutz ...
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The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design
Rüdiger Joppien, “Weniger ist Mehr: oder die Leere ist Fülle,” in Mehr oder Weniger: Braun im Vergleich (Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1990), 9–17, at 11. 96. See, for example, the special supplement of the Werkbund organ ...
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Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
In this magisterial work, Oxford historian Paul Betts describes how this effort found expression in humanitarian relief work, the prosecution of war crimes against humanity, a resurgent Catholic Church, peace campaigns, expanded welfare ...
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Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation
Jessica Pearson , The Colonial Politics of Global Health : France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2018 ) , 52-60 . Mary Brazelton , Western Medical Education on Trial : The Endurance of ...
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Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe
had its parallel in the rise of alternative therapies in the West, continued into the 1980s, by which time it had become fashionable for a now far healthier population to turn back to folk medicine, as the extraordinary popularity of ...
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Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics
This book explores the ways in which modernity shaped the relationship between socialist state and society in East Germany.
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The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
pastor, Friedrich Magirius, was Superintendent des Kirchenbezirkes LeipzigOst, and he played a critical role both in helping to organize the marches and insisting on their peaceful tone – the slogan 'Keine Gewalt!' (No violence!) was ...
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The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design
E.T. Hall, Die Sprache des Raumes (Düsseldorf, 1976), 138, cited in Tränkle, 701. 87. Anton Maria Keim and Alexander Link, eds., Leben in Trümmern (Munich, 1985). 88. Michael Z. Zimmermann, Schachtanlage und Zechenkolonie: Leben,Ar- ...
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-century Germany
"This volume explores the tension between mass death and individual loss by linking long-term patterns of mourning, burial, and grief with the short-term cataclysmic violence unleashed by two world wars.
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Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation
They contended that an international smallpox eradication programme would cost significantly less than the indefinite ... into Cold War History , Diplomatic History , 34/2 ( 2010 ) , 300-1 ; Bob Reinhardt , The End of a Global Pox .
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The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design
This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.
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Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War
A major new history of post-war Europe.
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Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic
A history of private life in the German Democratic Republic, showing how the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, and revealing the myriad ways in which privacy was expressed, staged and defended by ...
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Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
... postwar Germany, we still lack the requisite knowledge of the dominant discourses at the time in order to fully ... speaking about the experience of war and death. Of course, this did not happen right away. As I have shown elsewhere ...
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Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century
This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century.