West Germany and the Iron Curtain environment, economy, and culture in the borderlands Astrid M. Eckert
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2019]Copyright date: © 2019Description: x, 422 Seiten Illustrationen, KartenContent type:- Text
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- Band
- 9780190690052
- 943.087
- 943 300 333.7
- AR 12600
- NQ 6085
- 86.62
- 15.43
- 15.38
- BfZ
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | F (Affiliated) | F:DD258.85.G35 E25 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-4597 |
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"West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. These border regions constituted the Federal Republic’s most sensitive geographical space, in which it had to confront partition and engage its socialist neighbor, East Germany, in concrete ways. Each issue that arose in these borderlands—from economic deficiencies to border tourism, environmental pollution, landscape change, and the siting decision for a major nuclear facility—was magnified and mediated by the presence of what became the most militarized border of its day, the Iron Curtain. In topical chapters, the book traces each of these issues across the caesura of 1989–1990, thereby integrating the “long” postwar era with the postunification decades. At the heart of this deeply-researched study stands an environmental history of the Iron Curtain that explores transboundary pollution, landscape change, and a planned nuclear industrial site at Gorleben that was meant to bring jobs into the depressed border regions. As Eckert demonstrates, the borderlands that emerged with partition and disappeared with reunification did not merely mirror larger developments in the Federal Republic’s history but actually helped shape them." (Verlagsinformation)
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