TY - BOOK ID - 80837995 TI - East German historians since reunification : a discipline transformed AU - Fair-Schulz, Axel AU - Kessler, Mario PY - 2017 SN - 9781438465388 1438465386 9781438465371 PB - Albany, New York : SUNY Press, DB - UniCat KW - Historians KW - Historiographers KW - Scholars KW - Germany (East) KW - Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ) KW - Deutsche Demokratische Republik KW - Tyske demokratiske republik KW - Democratic German Republic KW - German Democratic Republic KW - East German Democratic Republic KW - East Germany (Democratic Republic) KW - DDR KW - Germanskai︠a︡ Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Nĕmecká demokratická republika KW - NDR KW - Nimet︠s︡ʹka Demokratychna Respublika KW - GDR KW - Niemiecka Republika Demokratyczna KW - NRD KW - Német Demokratikus Köztársaság KW - NDK KW - Tyska demokratiska republiken KW - Östtyskland KW - Republica Democrată Germană KW - Repubblica democratica tedesca KW - Germany (Democratic Republic) KW - D.D.R. KW - N.D.R. KW - G.D.R. KW - N.R.D. KW - N.D.K. KW - República Democrática Alemana KW - RDA KW - R.D.A. KW - Ostdeutschland KW - Eastern Germany KW - Cộng hòa dân chủ Đức KW - Germany KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) KW - Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) KW - Germany (West) KW - Historiography. KW - History KW - Study and teaching. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80837995 AB - With German reunification and the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1990, East German historians and their traditions of historiography were removed from mainstream discourse in Germany and relegated to the periphery. By the mid-1990s, few GDR-trained historians remained in academia. These developments led to a greater degree of intellectual pluralism, yet marginalized many accomplished scholars. East German Historians since Reunification assesses what was gained and lost in the process of dissolving and remaking GDR institutions of historical scholarship. The collection combines primary and secondary sources: younger scholars offer analyses of East German historiography, while senior scholars who lived through the dismantling process provide firsthand accounts. Contributors address broad trends in scholarship as well as particular subfields and institutions. What unites them is a willingness to think critically about the achievements and shortcomings of GDR historiography, and its fate after German reunification. ER -