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Sheffer Edith |
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Burned Bridge [[electronic resource] ] : how East and West Germans made the Iron Curtain / / Edith Sheffer ; foreword by Peter Schneider |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-59479-9 |
9786613624628 |
0-19-987620-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (380 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Boundaries - Social aspects - Germany - History - 20th century |
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Germany (East) Relations Germany (West) |
Germany (West) Relations Germany (East) |
Neustadt bei Coburg (Germany) History 20th century |
Sonneberg (Thuringia, Germany) History 20th century |
Germany History 1945-1990 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE: DEMARCATION LINE, 1945-1952; 1. Foundations: Burned Bridge; 2. Insecurity: Border Mayhem; 3. Inequality: Economic Divides; 4. Kickoff: Political Skirmishing; PART TWO: "LIVING WALL," 1952-1961; 5. Shock: Border Closure and Deportation; 6. Shift: Everyday Boundaries; 7. Surveillance: Individual Controls; PART THREE: IRON CURTAIN, 1961-1989; 8. Home: Life in the Prohibited Zone; 9. Fault Line: Life in the Fortifications; 10. Disconnect: East-West Relations; Epilogue: New Divides; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3 |
AbbreviationsNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on |
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vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented, in-depth account focuses on Burned Bridge--the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demo |
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