Performance anxiety : sport and work in Germany from the empire to Nazism / Michael Hau.

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Hau, Michael [author.]

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TextSeries: German and European studies ; 25.Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2017]Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 361 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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electronic

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442630635
1442630639

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

796.0943/09041 23

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GV611 .H39 2017eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Wehrkraft and Volkskraft : the "human economy" and performance enhancement during the Empire -- Conditioning bodies and minds during the Weimar Republic -- Conditioning people's comrades -- The Olympics of labour : the Reich vocational competitions, 1934-1939 -- The performance community at war -- Conclusion.

Summary: "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. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders, articulated a vision of a human economy that was coopted in 1933 by Nazi officials in order to promote competition in the workplace. Hau's original and startling study is the first to establish how Nazi leaders' discourse about sports and performance was used to support their claims that Germany was on its way to becoming a true meritocracy. Performance Anxiety is essential reading for political, social, and sports historians alike."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-323) and index.

"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. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders, articulated a vision of a human economy that was coopted in 1933 by Nazi officials in order to promote competition in the workplace. Hau's original and startling study is the first to establish how Nazi leaders' discourse about sports and performance was used to support their claims that Germany was on its way to becoming a true meritocracy. Performance Anxiety is essential reading for political, social, and sports historians alike."-- Provided by publisher.

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