German Unification: Expectations and Outcomes

by Peter C. Caldwell, R. Shandley

This wide-ranging collection brings together contributions from historians, political scientists, policymakers, and others to provide much-needed perspective on the unification of Germany as it actually played out in real historical time.

201 pages, Hardcover

First published September 15, 2011

About the author

Peter C. Caldwell is Samuel G. McCann Professor of History at Rice University, USA. Professor Caldwell is a Humboldt Fellow, and has received grants from the DAAD and the Humboldt Foundation, as well as a residential fellowship at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism (1997), Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic (2003) and Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe (2009).