The New Germany

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• Osman Durrani

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The 27 chapters of this volume reveal that there is scarcely an area of public activity in present-day Germany that has not been shaken to foundations by the upheavals of unification, a process which began suddenly and, for many people, unexpectedly in November 1989. By this time the two postwar German states, the 'Federal' and the 'Democratic' Republics, had been in existence for just over 40 years. As barriers in western Europe were removed and the Common Market became the European Community, the two German states appeared to be moving away from one another instead of converging…Although for historical reasons there have always been greater regional variations in such matters within the German-speaking world than in relatively uniform nation-states, the contrasts between 'East' and 'West' Germany had, by 1989, probably become sharper than those which distinguished the Federal Republic from the majority of other neighbouring states in western Europe… This volume aims to show that

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• Année de publication: 1995
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