After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities
The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay readers understand the changes and consequences, an American historian and a German social scientist put together this collection of central texts on German unification, the first of its kind. An invaluable reference tool.

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After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities
The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay readers understand the changes and consequences, an American historian and a German social scientist put together this collection of central texts on German unification, the first of its kind. An invaluable reference tool.

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After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities

After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities

by Konrad Jarausch (Editor)
After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities

After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities

by Konrad Jarausch (Editor)

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Overview

The unification of Germany is the most important change in Central Europe in the last four decades. Understanding this rapid and unforeseen development has raised old fears as well as inspired new hopes. In order to make sense out of the bewildering process and to help both expert and lay readers understand the changes and consequences, an American historian and a German social scientist put together this collection of central texts on German unification, the first of its kind. An invaluable reference tool.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781571810410
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 09/01/1997
Series: Modern German Studies , #2
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)
Lexile: 1670L (what's this?)

About the Author

Konrad Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many publications include The Rush to German Unity (1994) and Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany (1982).

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Reshaping German Identities: Reflections on the Post-Unification Debate
Konrad H. Jarausch

Chapter 1. The Presence of the Past: Culture, Opinion, and Identity in Germany
Konrad H. Jarausch, Hinrich C. Seeba, and David P. Conradt

Chapter 2. Natives, Strangers, and Foreigners: Constituting Germans by Constructing Others
Jeffrey Peck, Mitchell Ash, and Christiane Lemke

Chapter 3. East and West German Identities: United and Divided?
Helga A. Welsh, Andreas Pickel, and Dorothy Rosenberg

Chapter 4. Women, Men and Unification: Gender Politics and the Abortion Struggle Since 1989
Joyce Mushaben, Geoffrey Giles, and Sara Lennox

Chapter 5. Germany and Europe: Finding an International Role
Volker Berghahn, Gregory Flynn, and Paul Michael Lützeler

Postscript: Creative Chaos: Concluding Thoughts on Interdisciplinary Cooperation
Andreas Pickel

List of Contributors
Index

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