Transformations Of The New Germany

Author : Kendall L. Baker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674353152
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany Transformed written by Kendall L. Baker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new Germany has come of age, as democratic, sophisticated, affluent, and modern as any other western nation. This remarkable transition in little more than a generation is the central theme of Germany Transformed. Here all the old stereotypes and conclusions are challenged and new research is marshalled to provide a model for an advanced democratic republic. Kendall Baker, Russell Dalton, and Kai Hildebrandt, working with massive national election returns from 1953 onward, explain the Old Politics of the postwar period, which was based on the "economic miracle" and the security needs of West Germany, and the shift in the past decade to the New Politics, which emphasizes affluence, leisure, the quality of life, and international accommodation. But more than elections are examined. Rather, the authors delineate the transvaluation of the German civic culture as democracy became embedded in the nation's institutions, political ways, party structures, and citizen interest in governance. By the 1970s the quiescent German of Prussia, the Empire, and the 1930s had become the active and aware democratic westerner. This is among the most important books about West Germany written since the late 1950s, when the nation, devastated by war and rebuilding its economy and political life, was still struggling with the possibilities of democracy. It is a political history, recounted in enormous detail and with methodological precision, that will change perceptions about Germany and align them with realities. Germany is now an integrated part of a democratic western community of nations, and an understanding of its true condition not only illuminates better the staunch European identity but also is bound to have an impact on American policy.

Author : Philip Zelikow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674353251
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany Unified and Europe Transformed written by Philip Zelikow and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an analysis of the moves and manoeuvres that brought an end to the Cold War division of Europe. Coverage includes discussion of the opening of the Berlin Wall and a study of the relationship between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and reform Communist leader, Hans Modrow.

Author : R. Starkman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403984662
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformations of the New Germany written by R. Starkman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-02-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Fritzsche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198871120
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's First Hundred Days written by Peter Fritzsche and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich.Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian PeterFritzsche examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the Nazis apparently won over the majority of Germans to join them in their project to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche scrutinizes the events of theperiod - the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts - to understand both the terrifying power that the National Socialists came to exert over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised.

Author : P. Bleses
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005632
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State written by P. Bleses and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new intellectual ground in the analysis of the German welfare state. Bleses and Seeleib-Kaiser argue that we are witnessing a dual transformation of the welfare state, which is caused by the emergence of new dominating interpretative patterns. Increasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded.

Author : Martin Diewald
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804779456
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Fall of the Wall written by Martin Diewald and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new counterparts imported. This unique situation provides an exceptional opportunity to examine the central tenets of life course sociology. The empirical chapters of this book draw a comprehensive picture of life course transformation, demonstrating how the combination of life course dynamics coupled with an extraordinary pace of system change affect individual lives. How much turbulence was created by the transition and how much stability was preserved? How did the qualifications and resources acquired before 1989 influence the fortunes in the restructured economy? How did the privatization and reorganization of firms impact individuals? Did the transformation experiences differ by age/cohort and gender? How stable were social networks at work and in the family? Were personality characteristics important mediators of post-1989 success or failure or were they rather changed by them? How specific were the East German life trajectories in comparison with Poland and West-Germany?

Author : Simon Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317633520
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Transformation of Germany’s CDU written by Simon Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), one of Europe’s most successful and influential political parties. The CDU might have been expected to struggle in the circumstances of a more diverse, secular reunified Germany, yet it has prospered to an extent almost unparalleled in western Europe. Chapters consider the CDU’s policies (the factors driving them, their variation across Germany, the relationship to women, and the welfare state), its organisational development and change, and its position within the party system. Contributors particularly emphasise the diversity of the CDU, and the way it varies across Germany’s regions. The CDU is compared to other Christian Democratic parties, and special consideration is given to the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). This book was published as a special issue of German Politics.

Author : Friederike Ursula Eigler
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781879751569
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Transformations in the New Germany written by Friederike Ursula Eigler and published by Camden House (NY). This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin in Focus written by Barbara Becker-Cantarino and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-07-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays looks at Berlin after the fall of the Wall as the city struggles to re-establish itself as the cultural and political capital of Germany. Issues explored include the role of women in the restructuring of higher education, and counter-culture ventures.

Author : Thomas H. Broman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524575
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820 written by Thomas H. Broman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the evolution of medical theory and education in Germany between 1750 and 1820.