Der deutsche Kanal : Eine Mythologie der alten Bundesrepublik
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 61385261
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Franz Steiner Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783515126038
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book is based on extensive research in ten German archives. Infrastructure projects leave a large paper trail, and the project at the center of this book was under negotiation for more than a quarter-century. Attention to small details was crucial, as the book argues for in-depth investigations of political decision making processes. These negotiations produced a huge paper trail, which the book analyzes in minute detail to make its point for a new history of democracy that analyzes decision making process closely. The conceptualization, research, and writing of this book took a period of 3 years.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This is a microhistory of the old Federal Republic that explores basic features of West Germany's political system through the lens of an infrastructure project. So this is infrastructure history, political history, and contemporary history in the way it should be written - as an engagement with contemporary challenges that we can understand better through history.
