{"id":15257,"date":"2023-10-02T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=15257"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:41:42","slug":"in-commemoration-of-german-reunification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/in-commemoration-of-german-reunification","title":{"rendered":"In commemoration of German reunification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3rd.<\/strong> Tag der Deutschen Einheit<\/em> celebrates the 1990 reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic with ceremonial acts and the citizens’ festival B\u00fcrgerfest<\/em>. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Browse our relevant titles and journals on the ramifications of a divided Germany below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NEW in Paperback!
GERMAN DIVISION AS SHARED EXPERI<\/strong>ENCE<\/a>
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday<\/strong>
Edited by Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter
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” … It offers a stimulating and unprecedented insight into a past that is (re)discovered on both sides of the Wall, strangely close and dissimilar at the same time.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Francia<\/strong>

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INSIDE PARTY HEADQUARTERS<\/a>
Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany<\/strong>
R\u00fcdiger Bergien
Translated from the German by David Burnett<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside Party Headquarters<\/em> reviews not only the party\u2019s modes power and state interaction, but also the processes of negotiation and disputation preceding formal Politburo decisions, advancing the available detail and discourse surrounding this formative and volatile stretch of German history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE POLITICS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
<\/a><\/strong>Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany
Larry Frohman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is an important book crafted by a master of intellectual history. It will be widely consumed and discussed among German historians and a wide range of intellectuals interested in the origins of the modern surveillance state. Essential.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BREWING SOCIALISM<\/a>
Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization<\/strong>
Andrew Kloiber

Sifting through the relationship between material culture and ideology, this unique work examines the complex tapestry of traditions, history and cultural values that underpinned the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Volume 27, Studies in German History<\/a><\/em>
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END GAME<\/a>
The 1989 Revolution in East Germany<\/strong>
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
Translated from the German by Patricia Sutcliffe<\/em>

End Game<\/em>, a rich, sweeping account of the autumn of 1989 as it was experienced \u201con the ground\u201d in the German Democratic Republic, powerfully depicting the desolation and dysfunction that shaped everyday life for so many East Germans in the face of economic disruption and political impotence.

Volume 26, Studies in German History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE GUARDIANS OF CONCEPTS<\/a>
Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980<\/strong>
Martina Steber
Translated from the German by David Dichelle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardians of Concepts<\/em> scrutinizes the debates about conservatism in the UK and the Federal Republic of Germany from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 9, Studies in British and Imperial History<\/a><\/em>
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RETHINKING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AFTER ’68<\/a>
Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond<\/strong>
Edited by Belinda Davis, Friederike Br\u00fch\u00f6fener, and Stephen Milder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after \u201968<\/em> takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of numerous activists and movements across the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 31, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em>
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Forthcoming in Paperback, January 2024!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DON’T NEED NO THOUGHT CONTROL<\/strong><\/a>
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall<\/strong>
Gerd Horten<\/em>

\u201cHorten has written a fascinating, very readable, analytically sharp monograph, based on an impressive amount of primary and secondary sources\u2026 The average East German, not the few dissidents or the few fanatics on top, are the real heroes of his narrative.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong>

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OPEN ACCESS!<\/em><\/strong> Now available as paperback!<\/em>
COMRADES IN ARMS<\/strong><\/a>
Military Masculinities in East German Culture<\/strong>
Tom Smith<\/em>

\u201cWith [this book] Tom Smith has made a substantial contribution that will be useful to multiple fields, adding most notably to the research on gender in the GDR. The book is cogently written, comprehensively researched, and theoretically fluent.\u201d<\/em>  \u2022 German Studies Review<\/strong>

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New in Paperback!<\/em>
FRIENDSHIP WITHOUT BORDERS<\/a><\/strong>
Women’s Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany<\/strong>
Phil Leask<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Friendship Without Borders is an engaging, highly readable, and deeply interesting book that will be of interest to historians of Modern Germany, women and gender history, and everyday life.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 German Studies Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New in Paperback!<\/em>
FRANCE AND THE GERMAN QUESTION, 1945\u20131990<\/a><\/strong>
Edited by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bozo and Christian Wenkel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis volume is written by accomplished scholars and intended for university audiences. It offers new interpretations of French policy vis-a-vis Germany based on the latest available archival evidence. As such, it is essential reading for professional academics and students interested in European politics and the dynamics of European integration during the Cold War.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 History: Reviews of New Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forthcoming November 2023<\/em>
CHILDREN ARE EVERYWHERE<\/a>
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin<\/strong>
Meghana Joshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children are Everywhere<\/em> engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of social inclusion and exclusion in a low fertility Western European context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 55, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE PATH TO THE BERLIN WALL<\/a>
Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany<\/strong>
Manfred Wilke

\u201c<\/em>The Path to the Berlin Wall constitutes a superlative model of combining biography with the study of nationalism.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Berghahn Bestseller! <\/em>
THE HISTORY OF THE STASI<\/strong><\/a>
East Germany\u2019s Secret Police, 1945\u20131990<\/strong>
Jens Gieseke
Translated from the German by David Burnett<\/em>

\u201cThe book is an exceptional achievement in every respect: it offers a calm, detached, factual and well balanced socio-historical analysis of the MfS (Ministry for Security) that covers all aspects.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/strong>

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In Paperback! <\/em>
GENDERING POST-1945 GERMAN HISTORY<\/strong><\/a>
Entanglements<\/strong>
Edited by Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Br\u00fch\u00f6fener<\/em>

\u201c[This volume] deals with a fascinating but largely by historical research neglected field\u2026[it] convincingly does justice to its claim enrich traditional historiography and to treat contemporary history as gender history.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Sehepunkte<\/strong>

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A HISTORY SHARED AND DIVIDED<\/strong><\/a>
East and West Germany since the 1970s<\/strong>
Frank B\u00f6sch
Translated from the German by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser<\/em>

\u201c[The volume] provides over 500 pages of stimulating reading. It will be of interest to scholars researching in relevant fields and to graduate students embarking on doctoral work. It would also be excellent for a postgraduate seminar.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of European Studies<\/strong>

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Of Relevant Interest from Berghahn Journals<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor: Jeffrey J. Anderson, Georgetown University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German Politics and Society<\/em> is a joint publication of the BMW Center for German and European Studies<\/a> (of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University) and the German Academic Exchange Service<\/a> (DAAD). These centers are represented by their directors on the journal’s Editorial Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German Politics and Society<\/em> is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn Journals. It is the only American publication that explores issues in modern Germany from the combined perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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