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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eckert, Astrid M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Borderlands > Germany (West) > Environmental conditions.
Borderlands > Germany (West) > Economic conditions.
Borderlands > Germany (West) > Social conditions.
Germany (West) > Relations > Germany (East)
Germany (East) > Relations > Germany (West)
Germany > History > 1945-1990.
Régions frontalières > Allemagne (Ouest) > Conditions environnementales.
Régions frontalières > Allemagne (Ouest) > Conditions économiques.
Régions frontalières > Allemagne (Ouest) > Conditions sociales.
Allemagne > Histoire > 1945-1990.
International relations
Germany
Germany (East)
Germany (West)
1945-1990
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: on the western side of German's Iron Curtain
  • The making of the West German borderlands, 1945-1955
  • The east of the west: an economic backwater at the border
  • "Greetings from the zonal border": tourism to the Iron Curtain
  • Salts, sewage, and sulfurous air: transboundary pollution in the borderlands
  • Transboundary natures: the consequences of the Iron Curtain for landscape
  • Closing the nuclear fuel cycle at Gorleben? West German's energy future in the borderlands
  • Conclusion: West Germany from the periphery
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.