Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity : : Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough /

Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity : : Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough / / ed. by Carl Lankowski.

Germany's institutional anatomy, its norms, and the spirits that animate it can only be properly understood if one takes into account such factors as its economic power and central position within Europe. This volume traces the difficult passage of German society to modernity, offering new pers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Allen, Christopher S.,
Davis, Patricia,
Donfried, Karen,
Ertman, Thomas,
Gorski, Philip S.,
Huelshoff, Michael G.,
Höfig, Carolyn,
Lankowski, Carl,
Noveck, Beth Simone,
Reich, Simon,
Riemer, Jeremiah M.,
Silvia, Stephen J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Lankowski, Carl,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Policies and Institutions: Germany, Europe, and Transatlantic Relations ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Calvinism and Democracy: The Case of the Dutch Republic (1555-1787)
  • Chapter 2 Liberalization and Democratization in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany in Comparative Perspective
  • Chapter 3 Germany on the Global Stage: The U.S.-German Relationship after Unification
  • Chapter 4 The Politics of Adapting Organized Capitalism: United Germany, the New Europe, and Globalization
  • Chapter 5 The “Storm before the Calm”: Labor Markets, Unemployment, and Standort Deutschland
  • Chapter 6 The Bundesrat, Interest Groups, and Gridlock: German Federalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 7 Fahrvergnügen on the Datenbahn: Germany Confronts the Information Age
  • Chapter 8 Engineered Like No Other: German Society and the Automobile
  • Chapter 9 Globalization, Gender, and the German Welfare State: The Maldistributive Consequences of Retrenchment
  • Chapter 10 Grace? Under Pressure? The Goldhagen Controversy after Two Years
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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