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| Preface to the 1995 edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction to the 1995 edition: the new united Germany in a new era | |
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| A post-war historical survey: ruins to riches | |
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| The regional patchwork, an ancient legacy | |
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| West Berlin, 1945-89: the buoyant survivor | |
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| The new united Berlin, and its victory over Bonn | |
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| A diversity of dominant cities: life today in Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Bremen | |
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| The Bund and the Lander: how and why federalism works | |
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| Benevolent technocrats in the Rathaus | |
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| North v. South: rustbelt Ruhr hits back against Bavarian boom | |
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| The 'economic miracle' and its after-strains | |
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| Industrial splendour - but can it meet the high-tech challenge? | |
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| A paradise of labour harmony - but what of the waning work-ethic? | |
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| The great environmental debate: nuclear power, car exhaust, and death of the beloved forests | |
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| The ignored rural world and its grumbling peasantry | |
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| Daily life: a modernised society re-examines its traditions | |
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| The social snobberies of a semi-classless society | |
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| Women, sex and children: a few crusades yet to be won | |
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| A spick and span suburbia where the shops shut early | |
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| From Wurst and dumplings to fancy French and food fads | |
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| Assiduous tourists and crazy Cologne carnivalers | |
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| The spa romance - by courtesy of a lavish health insurance system | |
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| Schools: educating the mind, but not so much the character | |
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| The never-ending university malaise | |
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| Catholics and Protestants: a new amity, but new internal conflicts | |
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| Turkish 'guest workers' and other immigrants: a painful path towards acceptance | |
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| Arts and intellectuals: lively activity, but low creativity | |
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| The novel: waiting for successors to Boll and Grass | |
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| The State's role as Maecenas: taking culture out of the 'temples' | |
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| Theatre: morally serious, wilfully provocative | |
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| Fassbinder, Herzog and Reitz's Heimat: the brief golden age of the 'New German Cinema' | |
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| Television becomes less tame, but Bild stays barbarous | |
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| The old GDR: daily life under German-style Communism | |
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| Private values amid public collectivism | |
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| Dilemmas for the Church, wooed but wary | |
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| The watchful grip of the one-party State | |
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| Brecht to Biermann: dealing with the intellectual dissidents | |
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| Travel to the West: harshest of the curbs on freedom | |
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| Inter-German relations: detente, but silly games with protocol | |
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| The new east Germany, free but anxious | |
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| A traumatic adaptation to the West | |
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| Privatisation, pollution and property | |
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| Land and Rathaus renewal: keeping the old comrades? | |
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| Dilemmas for writers, new values in the classroom | |
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| Conclusion: how stable a democracy? | |
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| Digesting the legacies of Nazism | |
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| Political strengths and community weaknesses | |
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| The Greens and their values: fundamental social change, or just another youth protest? | |
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| Germany and the world: nationalism, or European integration? | |
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| Postscript, May 1995 | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |