Book ID: CBB759953918

West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, economy, and culture in the borderlands (2019)

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Astrid M. Eckert (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 422
Language: English

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.

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Review Gretchen Heefner (October 2021) Review of "West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, economy, and culture in the borderlands". Environmental History (pp. 821-823). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fruzsina Müller
Dabrowski, Patrice M.
Frederico Freitas
Himmel, Torsten K. D.
Jeffrey C. (Jeffrey Craig) Sanders
Archer, Kenna Lang
Concepts
Cold War
Environmental history
Social Conditions
Technology
Science and politics
Borderlands
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
West Germany
East Germany
Germany
United States
Brazos River (Tex.)
Carpathian Mountains
Institutions
Hoechst-Aktiengesellschaft
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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