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Volume 2
Modern German Studies
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After Unity
Reconfiguring German Identities
Edited by Konrad H. Jarausch
320 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-040-3 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (September 1997)
ISBN 978-1-57181-041-0 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (September 1997)
eISBN 978-1-78920-571-8 eBook
Reviews
“What emerges from this collection is a picture of a complex society that was neither fully modern nor fully totalitarian ... The dense book provides and illuminating discussion of the difficulties inherent in characterizing the GDR and, in so doing, points the reader in directions that might prove more fruitful.” • German Studies Review
Description
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.
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).