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German unification: between official history, academic scholarship, and political memoirs

Spohr, Kristina (2000) German unification: between official history, academic scholarship, and political memoirs. Historical Journal, 43 (3). pp. 869-888. ISSN 0018-246X

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Identification Number: 10.1017/S0018246X99001387

Abstract

Ten years after German unification, this historiographical review discusses how the cascade of published material reflects on two questions vital for contemporary history on this subject: first, why and how did unification happen, and second, what kind of sources and evidence are used by authors to justify their particular interpretation of events? In answering these questions, this review will not only give an overview of published accounts – official, scholarly, and autobiographical – but go beyond the immediate confines of the 1990s to shed light on the question of why Chancellor Helmut Kohl was able to win a prize that had eluded all of his predecessors since Konrad Adenauer.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna...
Additional Information: © 2000 Cambridge University Press
Divisions: International History
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DD Germany
Date Deposited: 22 Jan 2010 15:27
Last Modified: 03 Jan 2024 05:57
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26828

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