East German historians since reunification : a discipline transformed
Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Albany : SUNY Press,
[2017]
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| Schlagworte: | Historians Germany (East) Deutschland Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtsschreibung Geschichte 1990-2008 Historiker Wiedervereinigung Geschichte 1990-2000 Geschichte 1945-2000 |
| Umfang: | ix, 252 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany. With German reunification and the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1990, East German historians and their traditions of historiography were removed from mainstream discourse in Germany and relegated to the periphery. By the mid-1990s, few GDR-trained historians remained in academia. These developments led to a greater degree of intellectual pluralism, yet marginalized many accomplished scholars. East German Historians since Reunification assesses what was gained and lost in the process of dissolving and remaking GDR institutions of historical scholarship. The collection combines primary and secondary sources: younger scholars offer analyses of East German historiography, while senior scholars who lived through the dismantling process provide firsthand accounts. Contributors address broad trends in scholarship as well as particular subfields and institutions. What unites them is a willingness to think critically about the achievements and shortcomings of GDR historiography, and its fate after German reunification. |
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| Beschreibung: | "A conference entitled "The Transformation of Historical Scholarship in Eastern Germany Since 1990" that was held at the State University of New York at Potsdam (USA) on September 1-2, 2008 [...]" (Introduction, Seite 1) |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 252 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781438465371 1438465378 9781438465364 143846536X 9781438465388 1438465386 |