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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820099203321

Titolo

United Germany : debating processes and prospects / / editor, Konrad H. Jarausch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2013

ISBN

0-85745-973-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 290 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

JarauschKonrad Hugo

Disciplina

943.087/8

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Germany

Germany History

Germany Economic conditions 1990-

Germany History Unification, 1990

Germany Politics and government 1990-

Germany Social conditions 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. growing together? : processes and problems of German unification / Konrad H. Jarausch -- Decades of unity : continuity and change in political institutions / Gero Neugebauer -- United, yet separate : a view from the East / Heinrich Bortfeldt -- Debates and perceptions about German unification : the centrality of discourse / Helga A. Welsh -- Institutional coping : the Treuhandanstalt and the collapse of the East German economy, 1989-1990 / Wolfgang Seibel -- East Germany 1989-2010 : a fragmented development / Rainer Land -- Getting even : East German economic underperformance after unification / Jonathan R. Zatlin -- And the crisis of feminist politics / Ute Gerhard -- Women's movements in East Germany : are we in Europe yet? / Ingrid Miethe -- Feminist encounters : Germany, the EU, and beyond / Myra Marx Ferree -- After the GDR? restoring literature's standing / Klaus R. Scherpe -- Unity and difference : some reflections on a disparate field / Frank Hornigk -- The painful exit from the cold war : East German writers and the demise of the reading culture / Frank Trommler -- The "normalization" of humanitarian and military missions abroad / Beate Neuss -- German foreign policy after 1990 : some



critical remarks / Erhard Crome -- "To deploy or not to deploy" : the erratic evolution of German foreign policy since unification / Andrew I. Port.

Sommario/riassunto

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.