Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
Author | : Alon Confino |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780857450517 |
ISBN-13 | : 0857450514 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Download or read book Between Mass Death and Individual Loss written by Alon Confino and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding. It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich.