German Angst by Frank Biess

German Angst by Frank Biess

While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in the democratization of West Germany, where fears and anxieties about the country's catastrophic past and uncertain future both undermined democracy and stabilized the emerging Federal Republic.

It is the kind of book with which historians can teach, offering students a bold, new interpretive framework for understanding postwar German history and the potency of political emotions* Christian Bailey, Journal of Modern History *
It is the kind of book with which historians can teach, offering students a bold, new interpretive framework for understanding postwar German history and the potency of political emotions. * Christian Bailey, Journal of Modern History *

Frank Biess is Professor of History at the University of California-San Diego. He started his academic career at the Universities of Marburg and Tübingen in Germany. He earned two M.A. degrees at Washington University in St. Louis, and he received his PhD from Brown University in 2000. He has published extensively on the history of 20th-century Germany, with a focus on the post-1945 period. He is currently working on a set of projects relating to the global history of the interwar Weimar Republic.

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ISBN 13	9780198714187
ISBN 10	0198714181
Title	German Angst
Author	Frank Biess
Series	Emotions In History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2020-09-10
Number of pages	428
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the Norris & Carol Hundley Award from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
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