After Unity Reconfiguring German Identities [Paperback]

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.

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

Konrad Jarauschis Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many publications includeThe Rush to German Unity(1994) andStudents, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany(1982).

Preface

Introduction:Reshaping German Identities: Reflections on the Post-Unification Debate
Konrad H. Jarausch

Chapter 1.The Presence of the Past: Culture, Opinion, and Identity in Germany
Konrad H. Jarausch, Hinrich C. Seeba, and David P. Conradt

Chapter 2.Natives, Strangers, and Foreigners: Constituting Germans by Constructing Others
Jeffrey Peck, Mitchell Ash, and Christiane Lemke

Chapter 3.East and West German Identities: United and Divided?
Helga A. Welsh, Andreas Pickel, and Dorothy Rosenberg

Chapter 4.Women, Men and Unification: Gender Politics and the Abortion Struggle Since 1989
Joyce Mushaben, Geoffrey Giles, and Sara Lennox

Chapter 5.