Transformations of the new Germany
By: edited by Ruth A. Starkman.
Contributors: Starkman, Ruth A.
Series: Studies in European culture and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1945-; National socialism -- Psychological aspects; Germany -- Intellectual life; Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1990-; Germany -- Ethnic relations
Description: Much has been made of the Federal Republic of Germany's stubborn disunity more than a decade after unification. This collection demonstrates at once the persistence of the initial anxieties about the new Germany and its rapid absorption of the former German Democratic Republic, and suggests as well a potential optimism, that despite much contemporary domestic disenchantment, the new Germany continues to thrive as a European democracy endeavoring to confront its past and embrace its transformed and increasingly diverse culture. Transformations of the New Germany proceeds historically from unification to the present tracing a series of case studies from several of unified Germany's highly contested debates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.