
Germany
Stefan Berger(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 8. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84966-538-4 (ISBN)
Description
Fully revised and updated, the new edition of Germany explains the diverse ways in which national identity has been constructed over more than three centuries. It highlights the plurality of contested definitions of 'Germanness'. The themes covered include the struggles between the small-German and the greater-German movements in the 19th century and those between democratic and non-democratic inventions of the nation, the construction of the racial nation under Nazism, economic definitions of the nation, foreigners and 'Germanness', the gendering of the national discourse, the nation as community of memory, the federal nature of German nationalism and the impact of war on the construction of German national identity. Not only does the book use history and historiography, but also literature, art, architecture, music and a range of other disciplines to provide answers to a question which has haunted Germans ever since it was first asked by Ernst Moritz Arndt: 'What is a German's fatherland?'
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
images, maps
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84966-538-4 (9781849665384)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
Content
Introduction: Constructing Germany A Movement of 'Marginal Men': The National Idea until 1819; Nationalism in Search of a Mass Audience 1819-1971 Making Germans, 1871-1912 The Mythologies of War and the Republican Nation, 1914-1933 The Racial Nation, 1933-1945 Towards Postnationalism? The Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1990 The Failure of a 'Socialist Nation': The German Democratic Republic, 1945-1990 Quo Vadis Germany? National identity Debates after Reunification Conclusion: Reinventing Germany for the Twenty-first Century Bibliography