Germany - Couverture souple

Berger, Prof. Stefan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340705841 ISBN 13 : 9780340705841

Editeur : Hodder Arnold, 2004

Synopsis

'What is a German's fatherland?', asked Ernst Moritz Arndt at the
beginning of the nineteenth century. This has arguably been the central
question of modern German history. Germans did not have a united
fatherland until 1871, and, thereafter, major political events in 1918,
1933, 1945, 1968 and 1989 ensured that the answers to Arndt's question
proliferated and diverged with breath-taking speed.







<span style=font-style: italic;">Germany
</span>explains the diverse ways in which national identity has been
constructed over more than three centuries. It focuses on the plurality
of contested definitions of ‘Germanness'. The themes covered include the
struggles 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 nation as a
‘community of memory', the gendering of the national discourse, the
federal nature of German nationalism and the impact of war on the
construction of a German national identity. This is a fundamental
reappraisal of Germany's history from a perspective available only now
that the dust from the demolished Berlin Wall is settling in a reunited
Germany."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan, UK

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder Arnold
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340705841
• ISBN 13: 9780340705841
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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