Cool Conduct

Cool Conduct
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780520916418
ISBN-13 : 0520916417
Rating : 4/5 (417 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Cool Conduct by : Helmut Lethen

Download or read book Cool Conduct written by Helmut Lethen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.


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