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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

Different Restorations: Reconstructions and "Wiederaufbau" in Germany and the United States: 1865, 1945, and 1989. Ed. by Norbert Finzsch and Jürgen Martschukat. (Providence: Berghahn, 1996. x, 422 pp. $49.95, isbn 1-57181-086-2.)

This volume derives from a 1993 conference held in western Germany, the third of the triennial Krefeld Historical Symposiums that seek to compare facets of German and United States historical development. The organizers, inspired by the transatlantic interests of their mentor, the late Erich Angermann, intended to garner fresh historical perspectives on the nascent process of post-1989 German reunification by juxtaposing it to the Reconstruction, or Wiederaufbau, of the United States South after the Civil War and of the two Germanies, East and West, after the defeat of the Nazi regime in World War II. The twenty-six participants included historians and political scientists from the United States and Germany. Published here are eleven papers (some far more systematically comparative than others) originally presented in five different sessions, eight commentaries, and substantial excerpts from fifteen hours of recorded discussions. . . .

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