Germany, a nation in its time : before, during, and after nationalism, 1500-2000 /

The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past. An epic in the tradition of Jonathan Spence's The Search for Modern China and Jill Lepore's These Truths, He...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Helmut Walser, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W Norton & Company, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I THE NATION BEFORE NATIONALISM
  • Seeing Germany for the First Time (c. 1500)
  • "Germany . . . As If in a Mirror" (c. 1500-1580)
  • The Tears of Stoics (c. 1580-1700)
  • PART II THE COPERNICAN TURN
  • Partition and Patriotism (c. 1700-1770)
  • The Surface and the Interior (c. 1770-1790)
  • De l'Allemagne (c. 1790-1815)
  • PART III THE AGE OF NATIONALISM
  • Developing Nation (c. 1815-1850)
  • Nation Shapes (c. 1850-1870)
  • Objective Nation (c. 1870-1914)
  • PART IV THE NATIONALIST AGE
  • Sacrifice For (c. 1914-1933)
  • Sacrifice Of (c. 1933-1941)
  • Death Spaces (c. 1941-1945)
  • PART V AFTER NATIONALISM
  • A Living Concept of Fatherland (c. 1945-1950)
  • The Presence of Compassion (c. 1950-2000)
  • Epilogue: The Republic of the Germans at the Beginning of the Twenty-Second Century.