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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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date Australia
October 4th, 2016
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Pages
316
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9781439913437
Product ID
24773545

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