Astrid M Eckert

West Germany and the Iron Curtain

Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 745g
• ISBN-13: 9780190690052
• ISBN-10: 0190690054
• Artikelnr.: 55304220

Autorenporträt

Astrid M. Eckert is Associate Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta. She earned her PhD in History at Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the author of Struggle for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War (2012). She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy, and a Humboldt Foundation Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: On the Western Side of Germany's Iron Curtain
* 1: The Making of the West German Borderlands, 1945-1955
* 2: The East of the West: An Economic Backwater at the Border
* 3: "Greetings from the Zonal Border": Tourism to the Iron Curtain
* 4: Salts, Sewage, and Sulfurous Air: Transboundary Pollution in the
Borderlands
* 5: 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 Periphery
* Abbreviations
* Bibliography
* Index