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Article Excerpt
Germans on Drugs: The Complications of Modernization in Hamburg. Robert P. Stephens. 2007. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. vii + 328 pages. ISBN: 9780472099733, $70.00, cloth. ISBN: 9780472069736, $24.95 paper.
Germans on Drugs is an original, informative, and superbly researched exploration of the consequences of modernization in postwar Germany. As its title suggests, this scholarly contribution focuses on the youth drug culture that emerged in Hamburg in the 1960s and 1970s and the resulting drug control and treatment policies. Stephens is critical of the popular argument that Germany's successful political and economic rise from the ashes of the Second World War was made possible by its unreserved embrace of "modernization," i.e., market capitalism, rationalization, and liberal democracy. Stephens contends that "the emergence of a new youth drug culture in Hamburg during the long sixties was a product of the inherent complications of global capitalist modernization in the Federal Republic" (p. 2) and "that there were real costs associated with the 'return to the West'" (p. 8). He skillfully paints a sympathetic...
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