Geographies of Renewal Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990

DeWaal, Jeremy

Geographies of Renewal Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990 - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024 - 372 Seiten - New Studies in European History .

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Introduction; 1. Heimat, renewal and life after death in a Rhenish Metropolis; 2. 'Democratic' and 'Open to the World': reshaping narratives of local identity in cologne; 3. Heimat and renewal at the water's edge: Hamburg, Lèubeck, and Bremen; 4. Contesting the spatial foundations of democracy: The Southwest State Debates, 1945-1956; 5. The Nation as a redemptive geography: Heimat meetings and expellee politics; 6. Transcending the need for home?: The anti-Heimat movement of the 1960s; 7. Between Rhetoric and practice: re-reading the Heimat renaissance, 1970-1989; Epilogue: the immutable Heimat question; Bibliography; Index.

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