Peter C. Caldwell, Karrin Hanshew

Germany Since 1945 (eBook, PDF)

Politics, Culture, and Society

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This text provides an unparalleled social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War to the contemporary moment. As well as carefully balancing the histories of East and West Germany, Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew convincingly make the case for analysing the Berlin Republic as a serious and distinct historical period in its own right.

Offering international context throughout, Caldwell and Hanshew navigate students through the catastrophe of war, genocide and the country's division to the new challenges facing the reunified Germany in the 21st century. There are key primary source excerpts integrated throughout the text, as well as 50 images, 10 maps, several charts and tables and a detailed bibliography to further aid study. The book is also supported by an updated online Instructor's Guide which focuses on how to use the book in teaching, where to find the best collections of documents and images for teaching, and models for the many different kinds of courses that might be taught using the book.

New content and features for the 2nd edition include:

· A chapter on recent German history and expanded coverage of the post-1990 era

· Enhanced material on topics including far-right sympathies through the decades and West German foreign policy beyond Europe

· Additional images and maps

· An updated introduction, online Instructor's Guide, conclusion and historiographical updates throughout

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350294035
• Artikelnr.: 72250406

Autorenporträt

Peter C. Caldwell is Samuel G. McCann Professor of History at Rice University, USA. Professor Caldwell is a Humboldt Fellow, and has received grants from the DAAD and the Humboldt Foundation, as well as a residential fellowship at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of several books, including Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic (2003), Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe (2009) and Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989 (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
List of Terms and Abbreviations
How to Use This Book in Teaching
Introduction: Total defeat
Part One: Dividing Germany, 1945-70
1. Germany's "Zero Hour"
2. New States, East and West
3. Stability, Consolidation, and Dissent in West and East
4. Politics and Generational Change in 1960s West Germany
5. Behind the Wall: East Germany on a New Path
Part Two: New Beginnings, 1969-92
6. New Social Republics, East and West
7. Crisis and Change: The Federal Republic in the 1970s
8. Honecker's East Germany: The Model Socialist Nation
9. The Paradox of West German Conservatism
10. Collapse, Revolution, Unification: 1989-90
Part Three: The Berlin Republic, 1990-2023
11. Tensions of Unification
12. Making the Berlin Republic: Domestic Policy and Multicultural Society
13. The Berlin Republic and International Relations: Between Hegemon and
Civilian State
14. The Challenges and Legacies of the Merkel Chancellorship
Conclusion
Notes
Index