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The Historiography of German Reunification: Endeavours of Construction book cover

1st Edition

The Historiography of German Reunification Endeavours of Construction

By Tilo Schabert Copyright 2026
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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The Historiography of German Reunification presents a critical paradigm for both the deconstructing and constructing processes of catching events in the past by a representation of those events in the form of a scholarly, sustained story. The supporting argument is this: all historiography constructs as an endeavour that builds upon already existing and equally constructed documentation... Read more

List of the Protagonists

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Introduction: History in the Making

Chapter 1       Against the Truth of History

Chapter 2       Statecraft as an Event: Forming History by Political Design

Chapter 3       Reconstruction and Deconstruction. The Construction of History I

Chapter 4       Reconstruction and Deconstruction. The Construction of History II

Chapter 5       Whose History comes true?

Chapter 6       Stories within the Story

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Tilo Schabert is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Erlangen, Germany. His research focuses on political theory and the history of political ideas, among other areas. His publications include Boston Politics: The Creativity of Power (1989), The Second Birth: On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence (2015), The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch (2020), and France and the Reunification of Germany: Leadership in the Workshop of World Politics (2021).

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