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28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
University of Warwick
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Book title
Inventing a socialist nation : Heimat and the politics of everyday life in the GDR, 1945-1990
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Cambridge University Press
ISBN of book
9780521111775
Year of publication
2009
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This monograph, at 140,000 words, relies on a considerable body of material, and on extensive use of primary sources. It is rare for a monograph to deal with the entire history of the GDR. In examining how the state attempted to use local traditions to construct a national identity, the book relies on unusually rich and diverse archival sources at the local, regional (district) and national levels. The monograph builds on extensive oral history interviews, and on State Security Services files (because of Germany’s complex laws relating to access, these alone have taken over seven years to mine).
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No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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