30th Anniversary Best Sellers Sale! 30% off all formats! A History Shared and Divided: East and West Germany since the 1970s | BERGHAHN BOOKS
Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford

Browse All Books
A History Shared and Divided: East and West Germany since the 1970s

View Table of Contents




See Related
History Journals

Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

A History Shared and Divided

East and West Germany since the 1970s

Frank Bösch
Translated from the German by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser

620 pages, 2 figures, 8 tables, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-925-7 $179.00/£132.00 / Hb / Published (September 2018)

ISBN  978-1-83695-056-1 $45.00/£36.00 / Pb / Not Yet Published (May 2025)

eISBN 978-1-78533-926-4 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781785339257


View CartYour country: - edit Request a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format)Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

“…the 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.” • European History Quarterly

“[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.” • Journal of European Studies

Description

By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by economic crises, social and cultural changes, protest movements, and other phenomena so diffuse that they could hardly be contained by the Iron Curtain. Accordingly, A History Shared and Divided offers a collective portrait of the two Germanies that is both broad and deep. It brings together comprehensive thematic surveys by specialists in social history, media, education, the environment, and similar topics to assemble a monumental account of both nations from the crises of the 1970s to—and beyond—the reunification era.

Frank Bösch is Director of the Center for Contemporary History Research and Professor of German and European History of the 20th Century at the University of Potsdam. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on political, social, and media history, including Mass Media and Historical Change: Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present (English edition: Berghahn, 2015).

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Area: Germany


Contents

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend A History Shared and Divided East and West Germany since the 1970s for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $179.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.