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The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain:

historical pathways to contemporary Germany

the current Berlin Republic

society and diversity

Germany and Europe

Germany and the world.

This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture.

Sarah Colvin is the Schrder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Mark Taplin is a freelance scholar, editor, and translator.

It could hardly be more important, and at the same time it could hardly be more straightforward. Anyone who wants to understand the difficult options that face todays Europe has to understand what makes contemporary Germany tick. And anyone who wants to understand the new Germany will find the Handbook of German Politics & Culture an essential toolbox of insights for both of these tasks.

Martin Kettle, chief leader writer, Guardian

This is an impressively up-to-date and comprehensive survey of contemporary German political, economic and cultural life. It also offers important insights into Germanys relationship with Europe and the wider world. The contributions, written by an array of internationally renowned scholars, are lively, interesting, informative and engaged. The book will be of great interest to scholars, students and the general public alike.

Professor Bill Niven, Nottingham Trent University, UK

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture

Edited by Sarah Colvin

Assistant Editor Mark Taplin

First published 2015

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Summary: The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain historical pathways to contemporary Germany the current Berlin Republic society and diversity Germany and Europe Germany and the world. This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture Provided by publisher. GermanyPolitics and government21st century. 2. GermanySocial life and customs21st century. I. Colvin, Sarah.

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Contents

PART I
Pathways to contemporary Germany

Ute Frevert

Ritchie Robertson

Mary Fulbrook

Anne Fuchs

Jeffrey J. Anderson

PART II
The Berlin Republic

Eric Langenbacher

Thomas Saalfeld and Harald Schoen

Helen Williams

Patricia Hogwood

Laurence McFalls with Alexandra Hausstein

Andrew Webber

PART III
Society and diversity

Alex Street and Randall Hansen

Wilfried van der Will and Rob Burns

Christel Weiler

Volkhard Krech

Clare Bielby and Frauke Matthes

Stuart Taberner

PART IV
Germany and Europe

Fatima El-Tayeb

Paul Cooke

William E. Paterson

Beverly Crawford

Lothar Funk

Rainer Hillebrand

PART V
Germany and the world

Kurt Hbner

Hanns W. Maull

James Sperling

Jonathan Grix

Gregory Paschalidis

Figures

Tables

Jeffrey J. Anderson is Graf Goltz Professor and director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He researches and teaches at the intersection of comparative political economy and European integration. His publications include German Unification and the Union of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and two co-edited volumes: (with G. John Ikenberry and Thomas Risse) The End of the West? (2008) and (with Eric Langenbacher) From Bonn to the Berlin Republic (2010).

Clare Bielby is lecturer in German at the University of Hull, UK. She is the author of Violent Women in Print: Representations in the West German Print Media of the 1960s and 1970s (2012) and co-editor of Women and Death 3: Womens Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500 (2010).

Rob Burns is professor emeritus of German at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on postwar German politics and culture and is the author (with Wilfried van der Will) of Protest and Democracy in West Germany: Extra-Parliamentary Politics and the Democratic Agenda (1988) as well as the editor of German Cultural Studies: An Introduction (1995).

Paul Cooke is Centenary Chair in World Cinemas at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Speaking the Taboo: A Study of the Work of Wolfgang Hilbig (2000), The Pocket Essential to German Expressionist Film (2002), Representing East Germany: From Colonization to Nostalgia (2005), and Contemporary German Cinema (2012).

Beverly Crawford is adjunct professor of Political Science and co-director of the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of California Berkeley. She is the author of Power and German Foreign Policy (2007) and has written numerous articles on German politics. She is co-editor of several volumes on Germany, Europe, and the European Union.

Fatima El-Tayeb is associate professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies and associate director of Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of two books, European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (2011) and Schwarze Deutsche: Rasse und nationale Identitt, 18901933