The Free University of Berlin: A Political History - Hardcover

The Free University of Berlin. A Political History.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XIV; 507 S.; Illustr.; 24 cm. Ex. mit Gebrauchsspuren; einige Seiten geknickt; Umschlag tls. eingerissen. - Vortitel mit WIDMUNG von James Tent (an den Literaturwissenschaftler Eberhard Lämmert); SIGNIERT. - James Foster Tent ist ein US-amerikanischer Historiker. Tent lehrte seit 1974 an der University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham Neue europäische Geschichte, Deutsche Zeitgeschichte, Militärgeschichte und Geschichte des Kalten Krieges. Er wurde 1990 Professor und war von 2002 bis 2008 Dekan des History Departments, dazu Mitglied des Aufsichtsrats der UAB. 2010 wurde er emeritiert. Tent hat mehrere Monographien und zahlreiche Rezensionen zur deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts veröffentlicht. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt ist die deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte. // INHALT : Preface ---- Abbreviations ---- The Origins of the Free University, 1944 to 1948 ---- The Founding of the Free University, 1948 ---- The Consolidation of the Free University, 1949 to 1961 ---- The Free University in Crisis, 1961 to 1968 ---- The Free University and Reform, 1968 to 1983 ---- Retrenchment and Consolidation ---- Notes. // The Free University of Berlin holds the sometimes painful distinction of being the world's most political educational institution. Founded in 1948 in the midst of the Berlin Blockade, the university was supposed to become a haven for the pursuit of learning, free from the ideological strife of Berlin. In reality, the Free University never escaped the ideological passions that split the postwar world. In the last forty years, it has been, more often than not, at the sharp end of East-West political confrontation, and the environment in which it operates has been a far cry from ideologically neutral. In many ways, the story of the Free University is the story of Cold War politics in microcosm. It is a complex and fascinating tale that has important lessons for higher education. Founded by students who were determined not to accept totalitarian strait-jacketing from either the right or the left, the Free University developed under a democratic constitution that featured prominent student representation and minimal state interference. In the 1950s, the university was devoted to reforming the university system and played a major role in rebuilding German respectability in the social sciences. But it also became militantly anticommunist. Then came the Wall in 1961, and shortly after that the greening of a new generation of students who knew little of the privations and ideological strife of the postwar period. (Verlagstext) ISBN 0253326664 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 900 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag. Artikel-Nr. 1090156

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