Performance Anxiety - Sport and Work in Germany From the Empire to Nazism

Informationen zum Autor Michael Hau is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University. Klappentext Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Zusammenfassung Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites! from 1890 to 1945! to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Wehrkraft and Volkskraft: The "Human Economy" and Performance Enhancement during the Empire 2 Conditioning Bodies and Minds during the Weimar Republic 3: Conditioning People’s Comrades 4 The Olympics of Labor: The Reich Vocational Competitions, 1934-1939 5 The Performance Community at War Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Michael Hau
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781442630628
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-3062-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: German and European Studies; German and European Studies (H; German and European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries