A concise introduction to the process which led to the division of Germany in 1949, and its unification in 1990, this book also explores the economic, social an

Eisenberg argues that the United States made the decision to divide Germany, and that this was the key development in the emergence of the Cold War.

In Divided in Unity, Andreas Glaeser examines why east and west Germans continue to feel deeply divided and develops an analytical theory of identity formation,

In the mid-summer of 1989 the German Democratic Republic-- known as the GDR or East Germany--was an autocratic state led by an entrenched Communist Party. A loy

From German unification in 1871 through the early 1960s, confessional tensions between Catholics and Protestants were a source of deep division in German societ