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The Price of German Unity: Reunification and the Crisis of the Welfare State
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The Price of German Unity: Reunification and the Crisis of the Welfare State Hardcover - 2011

by Gerhard A. Ritter; Richard Deveson

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The unification of Germany as a prelude to the end of the division of Europe and the termination of the Cold War came as a surprise to the whole world. It was the beginning of a new era in German and European history.

The Price of German Unity is the first full-scale analysis of this process, both domestically and in its wider international context, with a particular focus on the social-policy consequences. Gerhard A. Ritter uses a wide range of hitherto inaccessible sources to describe and analyse the dynamics of reunification, including archives from the Chancellor's Office, and the relevant ministries and major parties of both the Federal Republic and the GDR, as well as the private papers of the leading actors on both sides and a wealth of interview material.

As the book convincingly demonstrates, the wholesale transfer of the social system of the Federal Republic of Germany to the territory of the former GDR and the huge drain of economic resources from West to East that this involved, profoundly affected the economic and political framework of the new Germany and greatly intensified the latent crisis of the German welfare state.

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  • Title The Price of German Unity: Reunification and the Crisis of the Welfare State
  • Author Gerhard A. Ritter; Richard Deveson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st edition.
  • Pages 500
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2011-07-02
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • ISBN 9780199556823 / 0199556822
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Policy Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany - History - Unification, 1990, Germany - Social policy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011923746
  • Dewey Decimal Code 361.943

About the author

Gerhard A. Ritter is professor emeritus at the University of Munich and has been visiting professor at Washington University, St Louis, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Oxford, and the University of Tel Aviv. A former chairman of the Association of German Historians, he is the author of numerous books on social and political history and the history of the welfare state.
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