{"product_id":"germany-since-1945-politics-culture-and-society-9781350294011","title":"Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis text provides an unparalleled social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War to the contemporary moment.\u003c\/b\u003e As well as carefully balancing the histories of East and West Germany, Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew convincingly make the case for analysing the Berlin Republic as a serious and distinct historical period in its own right. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering international context throughout, Caldwell and Hanshew navigate students through the catastrophe of war, genocide and the country's division to the new challenges facing the reunified Germany in the 21st century. There are key primary source excerpts integrated throughout the text, as well as 50 images, 10 maps, several charts and tables and a detailed bibliography to further aid study. The book is also supported by an updated online Instructor's Guide which focuses on how to use the book in teaching, where to find the best collections of documents and images for teaching, and models for the many different kinds of courses that might be taught using the book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e New content and features for the 2nd edition include: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - A chapter on recent German history and expanded coverage of the post-1990 era \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Enhanced material on topics including far-right sympathies through the decades and West German foreign policy beyond Europe \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Additional images and maps \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - An updated introduction, online Instructor's Guide, conclusion and historiographical updates throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter C. Caldwell\u003c\/b\u003e is Samuel G. McCann Professor of History at Rice University, USA. Professor Caldwell is a Humboldt Fellow, and has received grants from the DAAD and the Humboldt Foundation. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eDictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and D\u003ci\u003eemocracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989 \u003c\/i\u003e(2019). He is also a series editor for Bloomsbury's short-format German History in Focus series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eKarrin Hanshew\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, USA. Professor Hanshew has received grants from the DAAD, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Social Science Research Council. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTerror and Democracy in West Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and is currently working on a monograph entitled \u003ci\u003eFrom Axis to Europe: German and Italian Entanglements in the Social (Re)construction of Europe After World War II.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199369642258,"sku":"9781350294011","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08491ed2-7e18-44fe-b0d6-d0e1a33527bf.jpg?v=1744876162","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/germany-since-1945-politics-culture-and-society-9781350294011","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}