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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages I-XVII

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Ruth A. Starkman
  
  Pages 1-12
Intellectuals and German History
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 13-13
  
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2. Intellectuals, the “Third Way,” and German Unification
  
  Brett R. Wheeler
  
  Pages 15-34
3. The Rebirth of Tragedy: Syberberg, Strauß, and German Identity
  
  Stephen Brockmann
  
  Pages 35-53
4. Fear and Loathing after 9/11: German Intellectuals and the America-Debate
  
  Klaus R. Scherpe
  
  Pages 55-68
5. “Are the Towers Still Standing?” September 11 and the Resurrection of the Literary Intellectual
  
  Alison Lewis
  
  Pages 69-86
Material Culture East and West
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 87-87
  
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2. Born in the “Bakschischrepublik”: Anthems of the Late GDR
  
  Patricia Anne Simpson
  
  Pages 89-111
3. Spies, Shell Games, and Bananas: Everyday Symbols and Metaphors in the Process of Cultural Integration of East and West Germany
  
  Gottfried Korff
  
  Pages 113-129
4. Club Cola and Co. : Ostalgie, Material Culture and Identity
  
  Martin Blum
  
  Pages 131-154
Germany and Its Minorities
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 155-155
  
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2. Aussiedler and Ausländer: Transforming German National Identity
  
  Nora Räthzel
  
  Pages 157-179
3. Germany’s Coming Out: Citizenship and Immigration Reform since Unification
  
  Hermann Kurthen
  
  Pages 181-197
4. (Re)constructing Community in Berlin: Turks, Jews, and German Responsibility
  
  Jonathan Laurence
  
  Pages 199-232
5. Perpetual Impossibility? Normalization of German-Jewish Relations in the Berlin Republic
  
  Ruth A. Starkman
  
  Pages 233-249
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Pages 251-254

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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.

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University of San Francisco, USA

Ruth A. Starkman

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RUTH A. STARKMAN teaches political and social philosophy and ethics at the University of San Francisco. She lives in Mill Valley, USA.

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Book Title: Transformations of the New Germany
Editors: Ruth A. Starkman
Series Title: Studies in European Culture and History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403984661
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6795-4Published: 22 February 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53038-0Published: 22 February 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8466-1Published: 04 February 2006
Series ISSN: 2945-6274
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 254
Topics: History of Germany and Central Europe, European History, Modern History, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History

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Front Matter

Introduction

Intellectuals and German History

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Material Culture East and West

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Germany and Its Minorities

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Back Matter

Keywords

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University of San Francisco, USA

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