Bernhard Schafers - The State of Germany Atlas

The State of Germany Atlas — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "The State of Germany Atlas" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...20

THE STATE OF GERMANY ATLAS

Bernhard Schfers is a political scientist who was born in 1939. He has been Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Karlsruhe, Baden-Wrttemberg, since 1983. In 1991-92, he was chair of the Deutschen Gesellschaft fr Soziologie. He is a member of the Deutschen Akademie fr Stdtebau und Landesplanung and a corresponding member of the Akademie fr Haumforschung und Landesplanung.

THE STATE OF GERMANY ATLAS

Bernhard Schfers

with
Yvonne Bernart, Simone Farys
Nicole Hgele, Roger Hling

Originally published in German in 1997
by Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger
In der Raste 2, D-53129 Bonn, Germany

First published in English in 1998
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Original introduction and text copyright 1997
Bernhard Schfers

English translation, compilation, maps and graphics
copyright 1998 Myriad Editions Limited

Translated and produced by Myriad Editions Limited,
52 Maple Street, London W1P 5GE

Graphic design by Corinne Pearlman
Maps by All Terrain Mapping
Printed and bound in China by Phoenix Offset

All rights in the title of the published work shall be
vested in Myriad Editions Limited. No part of this book
may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or
by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and
recording, or in any information storage and retrieval
system, without permission in writing from the
publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the
British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
A catalog record for this book is available from the
Library of Congress

ISBN 0-415-18826-1

CONTENTS

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

MAJOR SOURCES

The following works are cited in the maps section, in the abbreviated form given at the end of each entry below.

Bundesministerium fr Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Grund- und Strukturdaten 1995/96, Bonn, December 1995. (Bundesmin. fr Bildung)

Eurostat, Statistische Grundzahlen der Europischen Union, Brussels, Luxembourg, 1995, 32nd edition. (Eurostat)

Der Fischer-Weltalmanach: Zahlen, Daten, Fakten '97, Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, November 1996. (Fischer Weltalmanach '97)

Globus Kartendienst GmbH, Hamburg. (Globus)

Harenberg Kompaktlexikon, Dortmund, 1996,3 vols. (Harenberg Lexikon 1996)

Harenberg Lexikon der Gegenwart: Aktuell '97, Dortmund, 1996. (Harenberg Aktuell '97)

Hauchler, Ingomar, ed., Globale Trends 1996: Fakten, Analysen, Prognosen, Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden, Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, November 1995. (Globale Trends 1996)

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Kln, Zahlen zur wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Cologne, various years. (Inst. d. dt. Wirtschaft o. Zahlen)

Jahrbuch der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, by Horst-Hennek Rohlfs and Ursel Schfer, Frankfurt am Main, 1996,11th edition. (Jahrbuch der Br. 1996)

Schfers, Bernhard, Gesellschaftlicher Wandel in Deutschland: Ein Studienbuch zur Sozialstruktur und Sozialgeschichte, Stuttgart, 1995, 6th revised edition.

Statistisches Bundesamt, Statistisches Jahrbuch fr die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Wiesbaden, various years. (Stat Jb.)

Statistisches Bundesamt, Statistisches Jahrbuch fr das Ausland, 1996, Wiesbaden, 1996. (Stat Jb. Ausl. 1996)

Statistisches Bundesamt, Bevlkerung und Wirtschaft 1872-1972, Stuttgart, Mainz, 1972.

Statistisches Bundesamt, Wirtschaft und Statistik, various years. (Wirtschaft und Statistik)

Statistisches Bundesamt with Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung and Zentrum fr Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim (ZUMA), Datenreport 1994: Zahlen und Fakten ber die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bundeszentrale fr politische Bildung, Bonn 1994, new edition 1995 (Datenreport)

Statistisches Amt der Europischen Gemeinschaft (Eurostat), Europa in Zahlen, Brussels, Luxembourg 1995, 4th edition. (Europa in Zahlen)

PREFACE

The State of Germany Atlas provides an informative picture of Germany's people, society, economy and political system at the end of the 20th century. Almost every map compares Germany with its 15 partners in the European Union, and sometimes with other major states such as the USA and Japan.

On 3 October 1990, two German states, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), were unified as a single federal republic. The maps and graphics in this atlas show clearly, sometimes dramatically, how the old, western Lnder and new, eastern Lnder are still in the process of integration and assimilation.

The eastern Lnder were soon able to take on the legal framework, institutions and economic structure of the Federal Republic, but to create a comparable standard of living is taking far longer than was ever imagined. In the early years after unification, the need of the new Lnder to improve their productivity and infrastructure were perceived as retrospective modernization. Such a notion, however, did not allow for further ongoing change within Germany as a whole. It has been necessary not only to make up for lost time in the new Lnder, but also necessary for the new Federal Republic to respond to other, general social change.

We hope that this atlas provides a reliable, fast and useful source of reference and information and that it will be used by many.

Bernhard Schfers
Institute of Sociology
University of Karlsruhe

Acknowledgements

The final product cannot really convey how much work and excitement went into its creation. Some 700 pages of data and text were condensed into 128 printed pages. I have been grateful for the commitment of Christine Buchheit, of Verlag J.H.W. Dietz in Bonn, and Anne Benewick, of Myriad Editions in London, in enabling us to meet our deadlines. The statistics were mainly submitted by the colleagues named on the title page of the atlas. We are indebted to many individuals and institutions for their help and support. The latter are fully listed in the sources in the text, although the Federal Statistical Office deserves its own special thanks.

Thanks are also due to two student research assistants, Sabina Misoch and Jennifer Stiebel, as well as Barbara Kupferschmidt and Use Willin in the secretary's office at the Institute of Sociology, University of Karlsruhe.

I would also like to thank Gunter E. Zimmermann for his assistance and many useful hints.

Part One

PEOPLE

Next page

1234567...20

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «The State of Germany Atlas»

Look at similar books to The State of Germany Atlas. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Thomas Bernhard

Walking: A Novella

Thomas Bernhard

Old Masters

Thomas Bernhard

My Prizes: An Accounting

Hans Bernhard Schmid

We, Together The Social Ontology of Us

Bernhard Peters

Identity and Integration

Bernhard Dürken

Experimental Analysis of Development

Dan Smith

The State of the World Atlas: Tenth Edition

Kroener Bernhard R.

Germany and the Second World War

Bernhard Meyer

Spine Surgery

Bernhard Haubold

Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists

Bernhard Schlink

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink

The Weekend

Discussion, reviews of the book The State of Germany Atlas and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.