Jonathan Bach is professor of global studies at the New School. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity After 1989 (1999) and coeditor of Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (2017).

In this wonderful book, Jonathan Bach shows the complexity of East Germans' adjustment to their new reality. Examining preferred consumption items, personal museums of things from the past, demolitions and rebuildings, and memorializations of the Wall, he goes well beyond fashionable invocations of "nostalgia" to explore unification's assaults on personhood and identity, on senses of place and history. A must read!

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "The Taste Remains"2. Collecting Communism3. Unbuilding4. The Wall After the WallEpilogue: Exit GhostNotesBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Bach is professor of global studies at the New School. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity After 1989 (1999) and coeditor of Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (2017).

In this wonderful book, Jonathan Bach shows the complexity of East Germans' adjustment to their new reality. Examining preferred consumption items, personal museums of things from the past, demolitions and rebuildings, and memorializations of the Wall, he goes well beyond fashionable invocations of "nostalgia" to explore unification's assaults on personhood and identity, on senses of place and history. A must read!

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "The Taste Remains"2. Collecting Communism3. Unbuilding4. The Wall After the WallEpilogue: Exit GhostNotesBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Bach is professor of global studies at the New School. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity After 1989 (1999) and coeditor of Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City (2017).

In this wonderful book, Jonathan Bach shows the complexity of East Germans' adjustment to their new reality. Examining preferred consumption items, personal museums of things from the past, demolitions and rebuildings, and memorializations of the Wall, he goes well beyond fashionable invocations of "nostalgia" to explore unification's assaults on personhood and identity, on senses of place and history. A must read!

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "The Taste Remains"2. Collecting Communism3. Unbuilding4. The Wall After the WallEpilogue: Exit GhostNotesBibliographyIndex