Four Germanys: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family - Donald S. Pitkin

Four Germanys: A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family

A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family
Buch | Softcover
316 Seiten
2016
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1343-7 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
In this last book by the late Donald Pitkin, author of The House that Giacomo Built, comes a story of the Schorcht family, through whose fortunes and struggles one can see the transformations of Germany through the long twentieth century.

Each chapter of Four Germanys is reflective of generational rather than historical time. In 1922, Edwin Schorcht inherited his family farm, and in Part One, Pitkin traces the derivation of this farmstead.  Part Two focuses on Schorcht’s children who came of age in Hitler’s Germany. Part Three has the Schorchts growing up in the Ulbricht years (1950–73) of the German Democratic Republic. The book concludes with the great-granddaughter, Maria, looking back to the past in relation to the new Germany that history had bequeathed her.

Ultimately, Four Germanys reflects the impact of critical historical events on ordinary East Germans while it also reveals how one particular family managed its own historical adaptation to these events.

Donald S. Pitkin (1922-2012) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Amherst College and Founder of the Anthro-Sociology Department. He was the author of The House that Giacomo Built: History of an Italian Family, 1898-1978.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Politics History & Social Chan
Verlagsort Philadelphia PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4399-1343-9 / 1439913439
ISBN-13 978-1-4399-1343-7 / 9781439913437
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