Brian M Puaca
Biographic Data
| ID | 1485902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian M Puaca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian M |
| FAMILY NAME | Puaca |
| SIGNATURE | PUACA B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christopher Newport University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3981-9107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Educating the Germans
The Allied occupation of Germany has enjoyed increasing attention in recent years from historians interested in the makings of contemporary Germany. While political, economic, and cultural reforms implemented after 1945 have featured prominently in these accounts, education has received less scrutiny. And of the studies that do concentrate on education, especially those published in English, there has been very little consideration of British eff…
Christian Wicke. Helmut Kohl’s Quest for Normality
While most political leaders find history to be a useful tool for their own purposes, few are actually trained in the discipline. Helmut Kohl, who completed his doctorate at the end of the 1950s, recognized at an early age the attraction of a historical narrative that traced Germany’s liberal traditions back into the early nineteenth century. The Third Reich, in this interpretation, was an aberration. The new Federal Republic crafted by Konrad Ad…
Teaching Trauma and Responsibility
I would like to thank the participants in the 2008 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) summer seminar at Cornell University for their comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article and the DAAD for its generous financial support
Learning Democracy
Scholarship on the history of West Germany’s educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and p…
Navigating the Waves of Change
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Germany found itself defeated, destroyed, occupied, and ultimately divided. The eastern portion of Germany fell under Soviet administration, while the western part came under joint occupation by the three victorious western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France). Recognizing at an early date that rebuilding Germany would promote political stability, economic growth, and peace in centra…
We Learned What Democracy Really Meant”
On January 28,1953, the RIAS-Schulfunkparlament (Berlin Student Parliament) celebrated its fifth anniversary. Despite the distractions of having important West German politicians in their midst as a sign of support, the young parliamentarians handled that day's business with their usual mix of enthusiasm and determination. These elected secondary school students debated five bills that afternoon, agreeing upon four of them. Among those that passe…
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We Learned What Democracy Really Meant”
On January 28,1953, the RIAS-Schulfunkparlament (Berlin Student Parliament) celebrated its fifth anniversary. Despite the distractions of having important West German politicians in their midst as a sign of support, the young parliamentarians handled that day's business with their usual mix of enthusiasm and determination. These elected secondary school students debated five bills that afternoon, agreeing upon four of them. Among those that passe…
Navigating the Waves of Change
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Germany found itself defeated, destroyed, occupied, and ultimately divided. The eastern portion of Germany fell under Soviet administration, while the western part came under joint occupation by the three victorious western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France). Recognizing at an early date that rebuilding Germany would promote political stability, economic growth, and peace in centra…
Learning Democracy
Scholarship on the history of West Germany’s educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and p…
Teaching Trauma and Responsibility
I would like to thank the participants in the 2008 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) summer seminar at Cornell University for their comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article and the DAAD for its generous financial support
Christian Wicke. Helmut Kohl’s Quest for Normality
While most political leaders find history to be a useful tool for their own purposes, few are actually trained in the discipline. Helmut Kohl, who completed his doctorate at the end of the 1950s, recognized at an early age the attraction of a historical narrative that traced Germany’s liberal traditions back into the early nineteenth century. The Third Reich, in this interpretation, was an aberration. The new Federal Republic crafted by Konrad Ad…
Educating the Germans
The Allied occupation of Germany has enjoyed increasing attention in recent years from historians interested in the makings of contemporary Germany. While political, economic, and cultural reforms implemented after 1945 have featured prominently in these accounts, education has received less scrutiny. And of the studies that do concentrate on education, especially those published in English, there has been very little consideration of British eff…
Political science (6 works) · German (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · European history and politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (3 works) · Economic history (2 works)