books about: heimat     books:       From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film Anton Kaes Harvard University Press, 1992             The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-19182 reviews Alon Confino The University of North Carolina Press, 1997 insightful Our popular conception that the unification of Germany in 1871 meant the beginnings of a nationalism that inextricably led to Nazism is misguided. In this volume, Confino shows how Germany forged its national identity by two kinds of celebrations based in Wurttemberg, a region in southwestern Germany. Wurttemberg is used convincingly as a representative case study for German nationalism. He ...             Peter Bialobrzeski: Heimat Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006 Peter Bialobrzeski's fascinating and disturbing collection of photographs from the skyscraper landscapes of Asian megacities, Neon Tigers, enchanted many. It was selected as one of the best-designed German books of 2004 and awarded the German Photography Book Prize. After his return from Asia, Bialobrzeski spent more than two years traveling through his native Germany. Heimat, which is German for "homeland," is the result. For Germans, Heimat is ...             Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment Stanford University Press, 2005 Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity’s most paradigmatic sites—both real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, ...             Heimat: A Critical Theory of the German Idea of Homeland (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and ... Peter Blickle Camden House, 2004 The idea of Heimat (home, homeland, native region) has been as important to German self-perceptions over the last two hundred years as the shifting notion of the German nation. While the idea of Heimat has been long neglected in English studies of German culture--among other reasons because the word Heimat has no exact equivalent in English--this book offers us the first cross-disciplinary and comprehensive analysis, in English or German, of ...             Literary Heimat: German and Austrian Jewish Writings after the Shoah Sonat Hart, Barbara S. Jurasek Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co., 2005 An anthology of German and Austrian Jewish writings, in the original German, after the Shoah.             Heimat - A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990 (Oxford Studies ... Elizabeth Boa, Rachel Palfreyman Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 The discourse of Heimat, meaning homeland or roots, has been a medium of debate on German identity between region and nation for at least a century. This study explores the theme of German identity between locality and nation in literature and film from the late nineteenth century through to the present, locating key novels and films in a wider cultural context of great significance for an understanding of German history.             Heimat Hermann Sudermann Adamant Media Corporation, 2001 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1893 edition by J. G. Cotta, Stuttgart.             Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History Alon Confino The University of North Carolina Press, 2006 An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. In ten essays (three never before published and one published only in German), Confino offers a distinct view of German nationhood in particular and of nationhood in general as a product of collective negotiation and exchange between ...             Unheimliche Heimat. Essays zur österreichischen Literatur. W. G. Sebald Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, 1995             Heimat: Steppes of Russia Shirley Wegner Nitschke, 2001 An Epic Novel             No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) Johannes von Moltke University of California Press, 2005 This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950s, a period that has been ...             Gesammelte Werke, Bd.79, Old Shatterhand in der Heimat Karl May Karl-May-Verlag, 1997             Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres Jacqueline Vansant Wayne State University Press, 2001              search for books 1871-1918, 1890-1990, austrian, bialobrzeski, critical, criticism, cultural, environment, gesammelte, globalization, homeland, imperial, linguistics, literary, literatur, literature, locations, loyalties, modernism, national, reclaiming, reemigres, regional, remembrance, shatterhand, unheimliche, vernacular, writings, wurttemberg, österreichischen books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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