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An intellectual and cultural history of mid-twentieth century plans
for European integration, this book calls into question the usual
pre- and post-war periodizations that have structured approaches to
twentieth-century European history. It focuses not simply on the
ideas of leading politicians but analyses debates about Europe in
"civil society" and the party-political sphere in Germany, asking
if, and how, a "permissive consensus" was formed around the issue
of integration. Taking Germany as its case study, the book offers
context to the post-war debates, analysing the continuities that
existed between interwar and post-war plans for European
integration. It draws attention to the abiding scepticism of
democracy displayed by many advocates of integration, indeed
suggesting that groups across the ideological spectrum converged
around support for European integration as a way of constraining
the practice of democracy within nation-states.
An intellectual and cultural history of mid-twentieth century plans
for European integration, this book calls into question the usual
pre- and post-war periodizations that have structured approaches to
twentieth-century European history. It focuses not simply on the
ideas of leading politicians but analyses debates about Europe in
"civil society" and the party-political sphere in Germany, asking
if, and how, a "permissive consensus" was formed around the issue
of integration. Taking Germany as its case study, the book offers
context to the post-war debates, analysing the continuities that
existed between interwar and post-war plans for European
integration. It draws attention to the abiding scepticism of
democracy displayed by many advocates of integration, indeed
suggesting that groups across the ideological spectrum converged
around support for European integration as a way of constraining
the practice of democracy within nation-states.
This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives,
from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a
generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent
hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political
regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations,
and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and
marrying for love helped German Jews to develop a new sense of
self. Appeals to romantic love were also significant in justifying
relationships between Jews and non-Jews, even when those unions
created conflict within and between communities. By incorporating
novel approaches from the history of emotions and life-cycle
history, Christian Bailey moves beyond existing research into the
sexual and racial politics of modern Germany and approaches a new
frontier in the study of subjectivity and the self. German Jews in
Love draws on a rich array of sources, from newspapers and love
letters to state and other official records. Calling on this
evidence, Bailey shows the ways German Jews' romantic relationships
reveal an aspect of acculturation that has been overlooked: how
deeply cultural scripts worked their way into emotions; those most
intimate and seemingly pre-political aspects of German-Jewish
subjectivity.
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