Chapter 6 A Myth of Unity: German Unification as a Challenge in Contemporary History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Tables VII
4. Acknowledgments VIII
5. Introduction. From Ruination to Renewal: Konrad Jarausch’s Europe 1
6. I: Theory and Historiography Questions
7. Chapter 1 History and Theory: Writing Modern European Histories after the Linguistic Turn 21
8. Chapter 2 Paths Forward: In Defense of the History of Disciplines 47
9. Chapter 3 Contextualizing the Holocaust: Modernization, Modernity, Colonialism, and Genocide 73
10. II: Memory, Professionalization, and Professions
11. Chapter 4 Gender and Academic Culture: Women in the Historical Profession in Germany and the United States since 1945 95
12. Chapter 5 Forms, Strategies, and Narratives of Professionalization in Western and Eastern Europe: Autonomous Profession versus Heteronomous Professional Service Class? 126
13. Chapter 6 A Myth of Unity: German Unification as a Challenge in Contemporary History 159
14. III: Narratives of German History
15. Chapter 7 A “Shattered” Religious Past: Rethinking the Master Narratives of Twentieth-Century German Christianity 177
16. Chapter 8 Central, Not Subsidiary: Migration as a Master Narrative in Modern German History 200
17. Chapter 9 Protest and Participation: The Transformation of Democratic Praxis in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1968–83 217
18. IV: Family Histories
19. Chapter 10 Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History 245
20. Chapter 11 On Losing One’s Children Twice: An Intimate Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung 284
21. Index 306