After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities (Modern German Studies - a Series of the German Studies Association , Vol 2) [Paperback]

Konrad Hugo Jarausch (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997 | ISBN-10: 1571810412 | ISBN-13: 978-1571810410

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This handy little volume is all in all the most successful of the post-unification efforts to assess German identities that this reviewer has seen. It is a remarkably balanced portrait mindful of the need never to forget, but with less of the stereotyping [that} blinds even perceptive commentators overwhelmed by the glare of Germanys Nazi/Holocaust past, as Jarausch puts it in the preface.(vii) The book is also an interesting experiment in cross-disciplinary cooperation of 3-authors teams form history, political science, and literature in the best German Studies tradition, who address the five logical dimensions of German identity - the public historical, multi-cultural, gender, East-West, and European - skillfully linked in an outstanding introductory essay. Jarausch leads the reader into the volume with an insightful sweep of the post-unification debates. The quality of analysis continues through the excellent survey of evolving German cultural identity... -- German Studies Review

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). Volker Gransow teaches in the Department of Political Science at the Freie Universitat Berlin. One of his more recent publications is The Autistic Walkman (1985).

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Berghahn Books (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571810412
• ISBN-13: 978-1571810410
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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