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Transformations of the New Germany / edited by R. Starkman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in European Culture and History, 2945-6282
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe, Central--History.
- Europe, Central.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- History, Modern.
- World politics.
- World history.
- History of Germany and Central Europe.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Political History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Germany and Central Europe.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Political History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection demonstrates the persistence of the initial anxieties about a united Germany and its rapid absorption of the German Democratic Republic, and also suggests a potential optimism that, despite much contemporary domestic disenchantment, the new Germany continues to thrive as a European democracy endeavouring to confront its past.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Interdisciplinarity or Cultural Studies
- Introduction
- Part I: Intellectuals and German History
- Chapter One: Intellectuals, the "Third Way," and German Unification
- Chapter Two: The Rebirth of Tragedy: Syberberg, Strauß, and German Identity
- Chapter Three: Fear and Loathing after 9/11: German Intellectuals and the America-Debate
- Chapter Four: "Are the Towers Still Standing?" September 11 and the Resurrection of the Literary Intellectual
- Part II: Material Culture East and West
- Chapter Five: Born in the "Bakschischrepublik": Anthems of the Late GDR
- Chapter Six: Spies, Shell Games, and Bananas: Everyday Symbols and Metaphors in the Process of Cultural Integration of East and West Germany
- Chapter Seven: Club Cola and Co.: Ostalgie, Material Culture and Identity
- Part III: Germany and Its Minorities
- Chapter Eight: Aussiedler and Ausländer: Transforming German National Identity
- Chapter Nine: Germany's Coming Out: Citizenship and Immigration Reform since Unification
- Chapter Ten: (Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility
- Chapter Eleven: Perpetual Impossibility? Normalization of German-Jewish Relations in the Berlin Republic
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611366032
- 9781281366030
- 128136603X
- 9781403984661
- 1403984662
- OCLC:
- 314851954
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