Introduction | p. 1 |
Preface: a united Germany begins a new era | p. 1 |
A post-war historical survey: ruins to riches | p. 11 |
The regional patchwork, an ancient legacy | p. 25 |
West Berlin, 1945-89: the buoyant survivor | p. 32 |
The new united Berlin, and its victory over Bonn | p. 48 |
A diversity of dominant cities: life today in Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Bremen | p. 64 |
The Bund and the Lander: how and why federalism works | p. 84 |
Benevolent technocrats in the Rathaus | p. 90 |
North v. South: rustbelt Ruhr hits back against Bavarian boom | p. 95 |
The 'economic miracle' and its after-strains | p. 104 |
Industrial splendour--but, can it meet the high-tech challenge? | p. 108 |
A paradise of labour harmony--but what of the waning work-ethic? | p. 125 |
The great environmental debate: nuclear power, car exhaust, and death of the beloved forests | p. 141 |
The ignored rural world and its grumbling peasantry | p. 154 |
Daily life: a modernised society re-examines its traditions | p. 172 |
The social snobberies of a semi-classless society | p. 173 |
Women, sex and children: a few crusades yet to be won | p. 189 |
A spick and span suburbia where the shops shut early | p. 203 |
From Wurst and dumplings to fancy French and food fads | p. 210 |
Assiduous tourists and crazy Cologne carnivalers | p. 218 |
The spa romance--by courtesy of a lavish health insurance system | p. 229 |
Schools: educating the mind, but not so much the character | p. 236 |
The never-ending university malaise | p. 245 |
Catholics and Protestants: a new amity, but new internal conflicts | p. 261 |
Turkish 'guest workers' and other immigrants: a painful path towards acceptance | p. 273 |
Arts and intellectuals: lively activity, but low creativity | p. 298 |
The novel: waiting for successors to Boll and Grass | p. 299 |
The State's role as Maecenas: taking culture out of the 'temples' | p. 307 |
Theatre: morally serious, wilfully provocative | p. 314 |
Fassbinder, Herzog and Reitz's Heimat: the brief golden age of the 'New German Cinema' | p. 331 |
Television becomes less tame, but Bild stays barbarous | p. 354 |
The old GDR: daily life under German-style Communism | p. 368 |
Private values amid public collectivism | p. 373 |
Dilemmas for the Church, wooed but wary | p. 384 |
The watchful grip of the one-party State | p. 388 |
Brecht to Biermann: dealing with the intellectual dissidents | p. 397 |
Travel to the West: harshest of the curbs on freedom | p. 403 |
Inter-German relations: detente, but silly games with protocol | p. 414 |
The new east Germany, free but anxious | p. 421 |
A traumatic adaptation to the West | p. 434 |
Privatisation, pollution and property | p. 448 |
Land and Rathaus renewal: keeping the old comrades? | p. 466 |
Dilemmas for writers, new values in the classroom | p. 479 |
Conclusion: how stable a democracy? | p. 497 |
Digesting the legacies of Nazism | p. 497 |
Political strengths and community weaknesses | p. 512 |
The Greens and their values: fundamental social change, or just another youth protest? | p. 533 |
Germany and the world: nationalism, or European integration? | p. 563 |
Acknowledgements | p. 581 |
Bibliography | p. 585 |
Index | p. 588 |
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