UID:
almahu_9949701075202882
Format:
1 online resource (372 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004617926
Series Statement:
European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000 13
Content:
The opening up, and subsequent tearing down, of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effectively ended a historically unique period for Europe that had drastically changed its face over a period of fifty years and redefined, in all sorts of ways, what was meant by East and West. For Germany in particular this radical change meant much more than unification of the divided country, although initially this process seemed to consume all of the country's energies and emotions. While the period of the Cold War saw the emergence of a Federal Republic distinctly Western in orientation, the coming down of the Iron Curtain meant that Germany's relationship with its traditional neighbours to the East and the South-East, which had been essentially frozen or redefined in different ways for the two German states by the Cold War, had to be rediscovered. This volume, which brings together scholars in German Studies from the United States, Germany and other European countries, examines the history of the relationship between Germany and Eastern Europe and the opportunities presented by the changes of the 1990's, drawing particular attention to the interaction between the willingness of German and its Eastern neighbours to work for political and economic inte-gration, on the one hand, and the cultural and social problems that stem from old prejudices and unresolved disputes left over from the Second World War, on the other.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
,
English
Additional Edition:
Print version: Germany and Eastern Europe : Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1999. ISBN 9789042006881
Language:
English
