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Designing One Nation

The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany

By: Katrin Schreiter

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Designing One Nation

The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany

By: Katrin Schreiter

Form Follows Function: Industrial Design and the Emergence of Postwar Economic Culture -- Producing Modern German Homes: The Economy of National Branding -- Intra-German Trade and the Aesthetic Dialectic of European Integration -- From Competition to Cooperation: Cold War Diplomacy of German Design -- Conservative Modernity: The Reception of Functionalism in German Living Rooms.

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Oxford University Press

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0190877278

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9780190877279

Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg

Neo-Moorish Russian Architecture and Interiors 1830-1917

By: Katrin Kaufmann

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Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg

Neo-Moorish Russian Architecture and Interiors 1830-1917

By: Katrin Kaufmann

Ein wenig bekanntes Phänomen innerhalb des sogenannten Maurischen Revivals ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung russischer Architekten mit der ibero-islamischen Architektur, insbesondere mit den mittelalterlichen Nasridenpalästen der Alhambra in Granada. Die materialreiche Studie analysiert orientalisierende Bauwerke und Interieurs des 19. Jahrhunderts in St. Petersburg und zeichnet die Transferwege nach, über die das Formenvokabular der Alhambra von Spanien nach Russland gelangte. Sie bezieht wesentliche Aspekte der russischen Kulturgeschichte und der europäischen Orient-Vorstellungen des 19. Jahrhunderts mit ein und zeigt, dass russische Architekten und die Kaiserliche Akademie der Künste zu den Pionieren des Maurischen Revivals gehörten. Erstmalige Betrachtung der orientalisierenden Architektur St. Petersburgs im gesamteuropäischen Kontext Russische Architekten als Pioniere des Maurischen Revivals

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111141373

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9783111141374

Designing One Nation

The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany

By: Katrin Schreiter

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The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany

By: Katrin Schreiter

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The histories of East and West Germany traditionally emphasize the Cold War rivalries between the communist and capitalist nations. Yet, even as the countries diverged in their political directions, they had to create new ways of working together economically. In Designing One Nation, Katrin Schreiter examines the material culture of increasing economic contacts in divided Germany from the 1940s until the 1990s. Trade events, such as fairs and product shows, became one of the few venues for sustained links and knowledge between the two countries after the building of the Berlin Wall. Schreiter uses industrial design, epitomized by the furniture industry, to show how a network of politicians, entrepreneurs, and cultural brokers attempted to nationally re-inscribe their production cultures, define a postwar German identity, and regain economic stability and political influence in postwar Europe. What started as a competition for ideological superiority between East and West Germany quickly turned into a shared, politically legitimizing quest for an untainted post-fascist modernity. This work follows products from the drawing board into the homes of ordinary Germans to offer insights into how converging visions of German industrial modernity created shared expectations about economic progress and living standards. Schreiter reveals how intra-German and European trade policies drove the creation of products and generated a certain convergence of East and West German taste by the 1980s. Drawing on a wide range of sources from governments, furniture firms, industrial design councils, home lifestyle magazines, and design exhibitions, Designing One Nation argues that an economic culture linked the two Germanies even before reunification in 1990.

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0190877294

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Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War

The Psychology of Honour

By: Katrin Möbius,Sascha Möbius

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Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War

The Psychology of Honour

By: Katrin Möbius,Sascha Möbius

The army of Frederick the Great of Prussia is generally known as an efficient fighting machine based on brutal and strict drill procedures that led to broken but fearless soldiers as well as glorious battle victories. In analysing the mentalities of the men who established Prussia's great power status, Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War fundamentally challenges this interpretation. Drawing on a vast array of primary sources (including the writing of regimental chaplain Küster, who could probably be called the first modern military psychologist) and presenting the first English translation of 12 letters of common Prussian soldiers from the Seven Years' War, this book shows that the soldiers were feeling individuals. They were loving husbands, vulnerable little brothers, deeply religious preachers, and sometimes even bold adventurers. All these individuals, however, were united by one idea which made them fight efficiently: honour. In Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War, the different elements of the Prussian soldiers' concept of such honour are expertly analysed. The result is a nuanced, sophisticated, and much-needed psychological history of Frederick the Great's army.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350081590

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9781350081598

Theology in Transition

Public Theologies in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By: Katrin Kusmierz

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Theology in Transition

Public Theologies in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By: Katrin Kusmierz

South African theologians have long been powerful voices in the hard-fought political transition from a repressive apartheid regime to a young democracy. A key question is: What should the public role of churches be in this democracy? The simultaneously emerging global discussion on public theology has been one important point of reference, offering a number of frameworks for thinking about the churches' public role. This book considers answers given by South African theologians, beginning with an historical review of approaches taken during apartheid and tracing their development in the two decades following. (Series: Theology in the Public Square / Theologie in der Ã?Â?ffentlichkeit, Vol. 8) [Subject: Religious Studies, African Studies]

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643801017

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Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen

Historical case studies of women's changing roles in family businesses

By: Draiflessen Collection gGmbH, Johanna Weymann

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Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen

Historical case studies of women's changing roles in family businesses

By: Draiflessen Collection gGmbH, Johanna Weymann

In the public imagination, small and medium-sized family businesses have always been male-dominated organisations, with those headed by women regarded as barely noteworthy exceptions to the rule. These ideas and associations are far from telling the full story; the proportion of women among Germany's self-employed population remained above 20 per cent throughout the twentieth century. A surge of interest in female entrepreneurs among academic researchers and in the political and media spheres has resulted in increasing recognition of their achievements past and present. There nevertheless remains a persistent tendency to overlook the fact that women have always made a vital contribution to the success of family businesses, even where they did not directly handle these companies' business affairs. This volume presents new insights into the diverse roles of women in family businesses, as daughters, wives, mothers, widows and entrepreneurs. Eleven case studies drawn from a range of sectors and eras illuminate the significance of women's influence in family businesses throughout the history of commerce. Bringing together approaches from the history of business, gender, society and culture, the chapters explore women's multi-faceted roles within numerous enterprises in a new and enlightening depth.

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Böhlau Köln

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3412528501

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Book's by Katrin Schreiter

Designing One Nation

Designing One Nation

Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg

Taking the Alhambra to St. Petersburg

Designing One Nation

Designing One Nation

Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War

Prussian Army Soldiers and the Seven Years' War

Theology in Transition

Theology in Transition

Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen

Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen

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