Neighbors and Enemies

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Neighbors and Enemies provides an interpretation of the collapse of Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic, which ended with the naming of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in January 1933. This study focuses on individual workers in Berlin and their strategies to confront the crises in their daily lives introduced by the transformation of society after 1918 and intensified during the Depression. Tensions between the sexes and generations, among neighbours, within families, and between citizens and their political parties led to the emergence of a radical - and at times violent - neighbourhood culture that signalled a loss of faith in political institutions. Swett offers an interpretation that marries a history of daily life in Depression-era Berlin with an analysis of the meanings of local politics in workers' communities, shifting our focus for understanding Weimar's collapse from the halls of governmental power to the streets of the urban core.

Neighbors and Enemies provides an interpretation of the collapse of Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic, which ended with the naming of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in January 1933. This study focuses on individual workers in Berlin and their strategies to confront the crises in their daily lives introduced by the transformation of society after 1918 and intensified during the Depression. Tensions between the sexes and generations, among neighbours, within families, and between citizens and their political parties led to the emergence of a radical - and at times violent - neighbourhood culture that signalled a loss of faith in political institutions. Swett offers an interpretation that marries a history of daily life in Depression-era Berlin with an analysis of the meanings of local politics in workers' communities, shifting our focus for understanding Weimar's collapse from the halls of governmental power to the streets of the urban core.

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VerlagCambridge University Press
EinbandFester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Seitenangabe358 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.4 cm 702 g
AutorSwett, Pamela E.

Über den Autor Pamela E. Swett

Pamela E. Swett is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University, Canada. She is the author of Neighbors and Enemies: The Culture of Radicalism in Weimar Berlin, 1929-1933 (2004) and Selling under the Swastika: Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany (2014). She is also the co-editor, along with S. Jonathan Wiesen and Jonathan Zatlin, of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007), as well as Pleasure and Power in Nazi Germany (2011), alongside Corey Ross, and Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany (2022), with Moritz Föllmer. S. Jonathan Wiesen is Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He is the author of West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 (2001), which won the Hagley Prize in Business History, and Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich (2011). He is also the co-editor, along with Pamela Swett and Jonathan Zatlin, of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007). Wiesen and Swett also co-edited the Nazi era chapters of the German Historical Institute's Historical Documents and Images online portal, for which they added hundreds of new documents, maps, tables, sound clips, still images, and moving images.

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