United Germany
Subtitle: debating processes and prospects
By: edited by Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780857459725; 9780857459732
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Description: Since the attempt to unite two parts of a country divided for four decades yielded contradictory results, this volume provides a balance sheet of the successes and failures of German unification during the first quarter century after the fall of the Wall. Five themes, ranging from the transfer of political institutions to the economic crisis, from the social upheaval for women’s movements to the cultural efforts at interpretation and the changes in foreign policy have been chosen to illustrate the complexity of the process. The contributors represent a broad interdisciplinary mix of political scientists, historians, and literary scholars. Because personal experiences tend to color scholarly judgments, they are drawn from West Germany, East Germany, and the United States. This collection is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of the political, social, and intellectual consequences of the efforts to regain German unity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. growing together? : processes and problems of German unification / Konrad H. Jarausch; title: Decades of unity : continuity and change in political institutions / Gero Neugebauer; title: United, yet separate : a view from the East / Heinrich Bortfeldt; title: Debates and perceptions about German unification : the centrality of discourse / Helga A. Welsh; title: Institutional coping : the Treuhandanstalt and the collapse of the East German economy, 1989-1990 / Wolfgang Seibel; title: East Germany 1989-2010 : a fragmented development / Rainer Land; title: Getting even : East German economic underperformance after unification / Jonathan R. Zatlin; title: And the crisis of feminist politics / Ute Gerhard; title: Women's movements in East Germany : are we in Europe yet? / Ingrid Miethe; title: Feminist encounters : Germany, the EU, and beyond / Myra Marx Ferree; title: After the GDR? restoring literature's standing / Klaus R. Scherpe; title: Unity and difference : some reflections on a disparate field / Frank Hornigk; title: The painful exit from the cold war : East German writers and the demise of the reading culture / Frank Trommler; title: The "normalization" of humanitarian and military missions abroad / Beate Neuss; title: German foreign policy after 1990 : some critical remarks / Erhard Crome; title: "To deploy or not to deploy" : the erratic evolution of German foreign policy since unification / Andrew I. Port.