Astrid M Eckert

West Germany and the Iron Curtain

Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands

• Broschiertes 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780197582312
• ISBN-10: 0197582311
• Artikelnr.: 61343452

Autorenporträt

Astrid M. Eckert is Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta. She is the author of Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War.

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
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index