{"id":19978,"date":"2024-10-01T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=19978"},"modified":"2025-04-01T08:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:52:50","slug":"german-unity-day-commemorating-german-reunification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/german-unity-day-commemorating-german-reunification","title":{"rendered":"German Unity Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Commemorating German Reunification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3rd.<\/strong>\u00a0Tag der Deutschen Einheit<\/em>\u00a0celebrates the 1990 reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic with ceremonial acts and the citizens\u2019 festival\u00a0B\u00fcrgerfest<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the spirit of this day, we have compiled some of our German Studies titles below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can browse our books by area: Germany here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Eric Langenbacher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany has undergone more change in the past two years than it has experienced in decades. In the fall of 2021, the Social Democratic Party unexpectedly surged to first place in the Bundestag elections, going on to lead a coalition of SPD, Greens, and Free Democrats that promised to \u201cdare more progress\u201d domestically. Then just two months after the new government was installed, Russia invaded Ukraine. The contributions in this volume investigate the altered state of German politics and predict the trajectory of Europe\u2019s leading power in the transformed geopolitical environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shaping Tomorrow’s World<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Twentieth-Century History of West German, Cold War, and Global Futures Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elke Seefried<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This new book marks a milestone in the still young\u00a0field that investigates the history of the future.”<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Historische Zeitschrift<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Intimate Histories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

African Americans and Germany since 1933<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadja Klopprogge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intimate Histories<\/em>\u00a0focuses on intimate relations as sites of shared pasts connecting African American and German history in the years between 1933 and 1990. By tracing topics that include anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilization, casual sexual encounters, marriage, and friendships, Intimate Histories broadens our understanding of African American\u2013German relations during the so-called \u201ccentury of extremes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 12, Explorations in Culture and International History<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t Need No Thought Control<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerd Horten<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\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><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Children are Everywhere<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meghana Joshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are some unique and important discussions [in this book] that I have not seen elaborated elsewhere and certainly not brought together in one place.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Heide Casta\u00f1eda<\/strong>, University of South Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 53, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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German Division as Shared Experience
<\/a>Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday<\/strong>
Edited by Erica Carter, Jan Palmowski, and Katrin Schreiter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll told, this volume successfully brings together its fascinating chapters into a powerful interdisciplinary analysis.<\/em> German Division as Shared Experience is a significant achievement that will serve as a bedrock for future research on the \u2018entanglement\u2019 of the Cold War Germanies. The editors and contributors have produced a genuinely pathbreaking book.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The Journal of Modern History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friendship without Borders<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women’s Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phil Leask<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeginning and advanced students can learn much from this highly readable book. Its bottom-up view of postwar German history is revealing even to the expert. Its subtle and perceptive interpretations of attitudes about gender and womanhood, Heimat and the German past, politics and everyday life are enlightening. It provokes one to think about friendship, the psychology of groups, and ageing in new and refreshing ways. A most worthwhile read.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 German History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Politics of Personal Information<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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Inside Party Headquarters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

R\u00fcdiger Bergien<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved heavily around maintaining the \u201cparty line\u201d in all areas of society, whether through direct authority or corruption. Spanning a long period of the GDR\u2019s history, from 1946 through 1989, R\u00fcdiger Bergien presents the first study that examines the complexities of the central party\u2019s communist apparatus. He focuses on their role as ideological watchdogs, as they fostered an underbelly and \u201cinner life\u201d for their employees to integrate the party\u2019s pillars throughout East German society.\u00a0Inside Party Headquarters<\/em>\u00a0reviews 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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France and the German Question, 1945\u20131990<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bozo and Christian Wenkel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese impressively researched chapters persuasively demonstrate that France was a leader in addressing postwar concerns with West Germany. Furthermore, the authors argue that France sought a constructive relationship with West Germany as early as 1945. From the economic rebuilding of the 1950s through de Gaulle\u2019s desire to transform the continent and negotiations with the Eastern bloc following Ostpolitik to Mitterand\u2019s support for German reunification within a European framework, this collection makes clear that the fates of the two countries were often inextricably linked. Highly Recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Guardians of Concepts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martina Steber<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1945, what \u2018conservative\u2019 means has troubled intellectuals, politicians and parties in the United Kingdom and West Germany. In Britain conservatism was an accepted term of the political vocabulary, denoting a particular tradition of political thought and practice. In West Germany, by contrast, conservatism was a difficult concept for the young democracy to swallow. It carried a heavy antiliberal and antidemocratic burden and led people to question whether there was a place for conservatism within democratic culture after all.<\/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. Informed by historical semantics, it conceives of conservatism as a flexible linguistic structure, and shows the importance of language for the self-understanding of many conservatives, who not by chance, have regarded themselves as the guardians of concepts. The intense national and transnational debates about the meaning of conservatism had far-reaching consequences and continue to influence politics today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 9, Studies in British and Imperial History<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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End Game<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1989 Revolution in East Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis story is so far little known and not a big topic of the German public. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk closes our knowledge gaps in an impressive way\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Open Access<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comrades in Arms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military Masculinities in East German Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis book is important because it opens avenues of research into queerness in East Germany\u2019s National People\u2019s Army (NVA)\u2026 Smith\u2019s book is commendable for breaking barriers in masculinity studies and offering a refreshing second look at the NVA\u2026 Highly Recommended. All readers.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gendering Post-1945 German History<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entanglements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Br\u00fch\u00f6fener<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis volume achieves a tremendous feat in its breadth, though its forte lies in its diverse contexts, uses, and understandings of gender\u2014including its co-constituency with race and sexuality\u2026 This collection offers a much-needed re-narrativization of a divided Germany that centers gender, race, and sex in the shaping of citizenry during postwar nation-making.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Feminist German Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rethinking Social Movements after ’68<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Belinda Davis, Friederike Br\u00fch\u00f6fener, and Stephen Milder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA volume on social movements in the 1970s and 1980s is very welcome and timely. Now that there exists a solid corpus of monographs on the Long Sixties, serious research on the 1970s is slowly beginning to see the light of day \u2013 less so on the 1980s. Thus,\u00a0<\/em>Rethinking Social Movements after \u201968\u00a0will begin to fill a growing need.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Gerd-Rainer Horn<\/strong>, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 31, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A History Shared and Divided<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

East and West Germany since the 1970s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank B\u00f6sch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026the range and rigour make this handbook a useful point of entry for specialists and students alike interested in understanding the transformation of Germany in the last half century.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 European History Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The History of the Stasi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

East Germany’s Secret Police, 1945-1990<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jens Gieseke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGieseke treats\u2026 many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough\u2026 Essential.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Path to the Berlin Wall<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Stages in the History of Divided Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manfred Wilke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c…constitutes a superlative model of combining biography with the study of nationalism. The latter constitutes the most novel contribution of this well-researched, straightforward historical depiction of Kohl\u2019s ideology and its impact upon the continuing development of German national identity… Recommended\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\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\u2019s 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<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Commemorating German Reunification German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3rd.\u00a0Tag der Deutschen Einheit\u00a0celebrates the 1990 reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic with ceremonial acts and the citizens\u2019 festival\u00a0B\u00fcrgerfest. In the spirit of this day, we have compiled some of our German Studies titles below. You can browse our… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,107,1740,111,113,1763,172,1726,367,224,1769,110,550,1783,296,1753,1138,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19978"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20037,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19978\/revisions\/20037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}