Introduction: divided and connected: perspectives on German history since the 1970s / Frank Bosch -- Political transformations in East and West / Frank Bosch and Jens Gieseke -- Economic crises, structural change, and international entanglements / Ralf Ahrens and Andre Steiner -- Entangled ecologies: outlines of a green history of two or more Germanys / Frank Uekotter -- Social security, social inequality, and the welfare state in East and West Germany / Winfried Suss -- Rationalization, automation, and digitalization: transformations in work / Rudiger Hachtmann -- The individualization of everyday life: consumption, domestic culture, and family -- Structures / Christopher Neumaier and Andreas Ludwig -- Paths to digital modernity: computerization as social change / Jurgen Danyel and Annette Schuhmann -- Educational rivalries: the transition from a German-German contest to an international -- Competition / Emmanuel Droit and Wilfried Rudloff -- Mobility and migration in divided Germany / Maren M?hring -- Sports and society in the rivalry between East and West / Jutta Braun -- Bridge over troubled water: mass media in divided Germany / Frank Bosch and Christoph Classen.