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Title:	Als wär’ es ein Stuck von uns . . . German Politics and Society Traverses Twenty Years of United Germany
Author:	Maier, Charles S.
Citation:	Maier, Charles S. 2010. Als wär’ es ein Stuck von uns . . . German Politics and Society traverses twenty years of United Germany. German Politics and Society 28(2): 1-16.
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Abstract:	This essay looks at postunification Germany through the pages of German Politics and Society. The articles published during this period reveal the evolution of intellectuals' understanding of the unified country—concerns that mirrored changes in social, political, and cultural reality. Of course, academics are beholden to their own histories and Weltanschauung, a fact that produced, at times, prescient, sometimes fragmentary, and sometimes alarmist interpretations and analyses of the country in an attempt to provide orientation. Nevertheless, this review shows how German watchers have slowly up-dated their paradigms and are now not worrying as much about a mellowed, less German country that has fascinated them over the decades.
Published Version:	doi:10.3167/gps.2010.280201
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