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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0197582311
ISBN-13
9780197582312
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14050025734
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Publication Name
West Germany and the Iron Curtain : Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Germany, Europe / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
6.4 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
327.430431
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Western Side of Germany's Iron Curtain1. The Making of the West German Borderlands, 1945-1955 2. The East of the West: An Economic Backwater at the Border3. "Greetings from the Zonal Border": Tourism to the Iron Curtain 4. Salts, Sewage, and Sulfurous Air: Transboundary Pollution in the Borderlands5. Transboundary Natures: The Consequences of the Iron Curtain for Landscape 6. Closing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle at Gorleben? West Germany's Energy Future in the Borderlands Conclusion West Germany from the PeripheryAbbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of the Federal Republic and the German re-unification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. The book is the first environmental history of the Iron Curtain., West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. These border regions constituted the Federal Republic's most sensitive geographical space where it had to confront partition and engage its socialist neighbor East Germany in concrete ways. Each issue that arose in these borderlands - from economic deficiencies, border tourism, environmental pollution, landscape change, and the siting decision for a major nuclear facility - was magnified and mediated by the presence of what became the most militarized border of its day, the Iron Curtain. In topical chapters, the book addresses the economic consequences of the border for West Germany, which defined the border regions as depressed areas, and examines the cultural practice of western tourism to the Iron Curtain. At the heart of this deeply-researched book stands an environmental history of the Iron Curtain that explores transboundary pollution, landscape change, and a planned nuclear industrial site at Gorleben that was meant to bring jobs into the depressed border regions. The book traces these subjects across the caesura of 1989/90, thereby integrating the "long" postwar era with the post-unification decades. As Eckert demonstrates, the borderlands that emerged with partition and disappeared with reunification did not merely mirror some larger developments in the Federal Republic's history but actually helped to shape them.
LC Classification Number
DD258.85
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