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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction. Divided and Connected: Perspectives on German
History since the 1970s 1
Frank Bösch
Chapter 1. Political Transformations in East and West 45
Frank Bösch and Jens Gieseke
Chapter 2. Economic Crises, Structural Change, and
International Entanglements 102
Ralf Ahrens and André Steiner
Chapter 3. Entangled Ecologies: Outlines of a Green History
of Two or More Germanys 147
Frank Uekötter
Chapter 4. Social Security, Social Inequality, and the
Welfare State in East and West Germany 191
Winfried Süß
Chapter 5. Rationalization, Automation, and Digitalization:
Transformations in Work 239
Rüdiger Hachtmann
Chapter 6. The Individualization of Everyday Life: Consumption,
Domestic Culture, and Family Structures 293
Christopher Neumaier and Andreas Ludwig
Chapter 7. Paths to Digital Modernity: Computerization
as Social Change 348
Jürgen Danyel and Annette Schuhmann