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Prior to the late 1960s, German history textbooks lacked coverage of Poland and depicted Germany's eastern neighbor with negative images. The 1970s and 1980s, however, witnessed positive changes to the contents of German school textbooks—particularly with respect to their descriptions of Poland and German-Polish relations. How and why did Germany promote a more reflective view of history and correct negative descriptions of the Poles in German history textbooks between the 1970s and 1980s? This article addresses this question by focusing on the influence of Brandt's Ostpolitik and on the activities of the German-Polish History Textbook Commission. The article also shows how contemporary conservative reaction was not powerful enough to reverse these positive changes to German history textbooks.

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The liberal theoretical pattern in nineteenth-century German social science -- The crisis of liberalism and the emergence of cultural science, 1848-1862 -- The contexts of cultural science -- The crisis of liberalism and the emergence of cultural science, 1862-1885 -- Berlin ethnology as neoliberal cultural science -- V(c)œlkerpsychologie -- Bauer, Volk, and Kultur: the peasant as the foundation of culture -- The diffusionist revolt -- Exploration, imperialism, and anthropology -- Historical economics and cultural history -- Intellectual politics and cultural science in the Wilhelmian era -- Lebensraum--theory and politics in human geography -- Cultural science and politics

Alastair Thompson here challenges the view of German Liberalism as the helpless victim of mass mobilization and political polarization in Wilhelmine Germany. He reveals the influence of a party that was the third largest in German politics by 1914 and which effectively wrote the Weimar Constitution. His study is central to understanding increasing Left Liberal support on the eve of war, and why liberal values could not be consolidated after 1918.

Ideologies and politics of consumption -- The logic and contingencies of planning, producing, and distributing -- From "new out of old" to "socialist fashion" : patching together an alternative consumer culture -- Economies of value and politics of price -- The embarrassment of surpluses -- The disillusionment of dreams of distinction : hochmodisch apparel, fashion boutiques, and exquisit stores -- Shopping, sewing, networking, complaining : consumer practices and the relationship between state and society.