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The first major study of the contemporary German debate over
"normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural,
political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses. This
volume features sixteen thought-provoking essays by renowned
international experts on German society, culture, and politics
that, together, provide a comprehensive study of Germany's
postunification process of "normalization." Essays ranging across a
variety of disciplines including politics, foreign policy,
economics, literature, architecture, and film examine how since
1990 the often contested concept of normalization has become
crucial to Germany'sself-understanding. Despite the apparent
emergence of a "new" Germany, the essays demonstrate that
normalization is still in question, and that perennial concerns --
notably the Nazi past and the legacy of the GDR -- remain central
to political and cultural discourses and affect the country's
efforts to deal with the new challenges of globalization and the
instability and polarization it brings. This is the first major
study in English or German of the impact of the normalization
debate across the range of cultural, political, economic,
intellectual, and historical discourses. Contributors: Stephen
Brockmann, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerry Longhurst,
Lothar Probst, Simon Ward, Anna Saunders, Annette Seidel Arpaci,
Chris Homewood, Andrew Plowman, Helmut Schmitz, Karoline Von Oppen,
William Collins Donahue, Kathrin Schoedel, Stuart Taberner, Paul
Cooke Stuart Taberner isProfessor of Contemporary German
Literature, Culture, and Society and Paul Cooke is Senior Lecturer
in German Studies, both at the University of Leeds.
How do United States public policies differ from those of other
wealthy democracies? Why do they differ? "The Roots of American
Exceptionalism" draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive
paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to
explain why they adopt different policies for common problems. It
compares the United States with Sweden on tax policy, Canada on
financing medical care, France on abortion policy, and Japan on
immigration. The book shows that American public policies across
these four areas fit a pattern of embodying the fundamental beliefs
and value priorities of a particular culture: individualism. And
while American public policies are rational from this cultural
perspective, the relative strengths and weaknesses of this
culturally-constrained rationality are contrasted with those of
alternative, more egalitarian and/or hierarchical,
culturally-constrained rationalities which prevail in Sweden,
Canada, France and Japan.
A comprehensive perspective on the German Mittelstand is provided.
The authors do not only consider internal management aspects of
these companies but also their societal environment. Therefore,
four of the nine chapters in the first part of the book are related
to the environment of the German Mittelstand while five chapters
compiled in the second part focus on different management aspects
of Mittelstand companies. Among the topics addressed are
organization, marketing management, supply chain and innovation
management, and financial management in the Mittelstand.
The authors take diverse approaches to studying Mittelstand
companies. This book contains mostly qualitative papers,
survey-based papers as well as papers based on case studies.
The human face is invariably interesting, even as an object of
embryologic analysis. The early embryonic growth processes are
located around the developing sense organs, among which the nose
holds a key position. The first indication of the development of
the nose is the formation of the placodes, oval areas of thick ened
and condensed ectoderm, one on each side of the head. Each of these
placodes is transformed, via the nasal groove, into the nasal tube,
sometimes indicated as primitive nasal cavity. In the literature
this transformation has been described as an isolated process that
changes the superficial facial region. Some authors, including
Wolgensinger (1950), think that the active component of this trans
formation primarily is the ectoderm of the nasal placode. Others,
i. e. Hochstetter (1891), Kallius (1905) and Vermeij-Keers (1967),
assume this component be located in the mesenchyme. Peter (1913,
1949), Patten (1953, 1961), Warbrick (1960), and Andersen and
Matthiessen (1967) hold both these components to be active. In the
first and last of these three concepts the ectoderm of the nasal
placode and the nasal groove respectively, is thought to invade the
mesenchyme in the posterior direction. Invading ectoderm has also
been considered to form - independent of the transformation - the
organ of Jacobson and the naso lacrimal duct and to separate the
conchae (e. g. Born, 1876; Legal, 1883; Kallius, 1905; Peter, 1913,
1949; Streeter, 1948; Andersen and Matthiessen, 1967)."
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as
victims during the Second World War and its aftermath. The recent
"discovery" of German wartime suffering has had a particularly
profound impact in German visual culture. Films from Margarethe von
Trotta's Rosenstrasse (2003) to Oliver Hirschbiegel's
Oscar-nominated Downfall (2004) and the two-part television
mini-series Dresden (2006) have shown how ordinary Germans suffered
during and after the war. Such films have been presented by critics
as treating a topic that had been taboo for German filmmakers.
However, the representation of wartime suffering has a long
tradition on the German screen. For decades, filmmakers have
recontextualized images of Germans as victims to engage shifting
social and ideological discourses. By focusing on this process, the
present volume explores how the changing representation of Germans
as victims has shaped the ways in which both of the postwar German
states and the now-unified nation have attempted to facethe trauma
of the past and to construct a contemporary place for themselves in
the world. Contributors: Sean Allan, Tim Bergfelder, Daniela
Berghahn, Erica Carter, David Clarke, John E. Davidson, Sabine
Hake, JenniferKapczynski, Manuel Koeppen, Rachel Palfreyman, Brad
Prager, Johannes von Moltke. Paul Cooke is Professor of German
Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and Marc Silberman is
Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin.
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