Germany Since 1945 - Politics, Culture, and Society

This text provides an unparalleled social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War to recent times. 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 online Instructor''s Guide which provides an invaluable tool for instructors looking to use the text in the classroom. 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, conclusion and historiographical updates throughout>

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Peter C Caldwell, Peter C. Caldwell, Karrin Hanshew
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781350294028
• ISBN: 978-1-350-29402-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General