In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent

by Timothy Garton Ash

Overview

For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central Europe tells the story of German reunification. Garton Ash has produced a panoramic, dramatic, and definitive account of events that are continuing to transform the map of Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679755579
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/1994
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	700
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Timothy Garton Ash is a fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Celebrated for his essays in the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The Polish Revolution, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity, which won the Prix Européen de l’Essai; Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World; and The Magic Lantern, his eyewitness account of the Central European revolutions of 1989, which has been translated into 14 languages. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons.

Table of Contents

	Prologue: European Question
	Which question?	1
	Yalta	5
	A unique divide	6
	Healing?	11
Chapter I	German Answers
	The divided centre	14
	European peace order	16
	Two questions or one?	19
	The European interest	25
Chapter II	Ostpolitik
	Was there one?	28
	In a word	34
	Causes and sources	42
Chapter III	Bonn-Moscow-Berlin
	'Our most important task'	48
	The road from Berlin	58
	Treaty work	67
	System and crisis	83
	A new book	98
Chapter IV	Germany and Germany
	Foundations	126
	Thoughts, words and deeds	132
	For people and the people	136
	From Germany to Germany	141
	Permanent negotiation	149
	The German Mark	152
	Recognition	162
	Liberalisation through stabilisation?	176
	Stabilisation without liberalisation	185
	Liberation by destabilisation	197
	Success and failure	203
Chapter V	Beyond the Oder
	History and frontiers	216
	Compatriots	231
	Carrots and sticks	244
	Weaving	258
	Stability before liberty	279
	Reconciliation	298
Chapter VI	A Second Ostpolitik
	Social Democrats in the 1980s	312
	Shadow policy	319
	After the event	330
Chapter VII	German Unification
	Refolution and revolution	344
	Peace, agreement and Realpolitik	347
	The last treaty work	354
Chapter VIII	Findings
	German and European	357
	Ostpolitik and the end	362
	German model	371
	Epilogue: European Answers?
	Consequences	378
	European Germany, German Europe	384
	Why Europe? Which Europe?	388
	Beyond Ostpolitik	393
	Possibilities	408
	Abbreviations	411
	Unpublished sources	415
	Short titles	417
	Notes	428
	Chronology	612
	Maps	642
	Tables and Graphs	649
	Acknowledgements	662
	Index	665

Editorial Reviews

"Among the most important books on recent international history...An immense research effort"—The New York Times Book Review
"A subtle account of German policy toward the East over the past quarter century, elegantly written and suffused with...original insights."—The New York Review of Books

From the Publisher

A magisterial study of the reunification of Germany by the author of The Uses of Adversity. (Nov.)

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