Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 - Couverture souple

Smith, Helmut Walser

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1324091541 ISBN 13 : 9781324091547

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022

Synopsis

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.

For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression, its nineteenth-century ascent accompanied by militarism and brought to a murderous apex in the Third Reich. Not so, asserts Helmut Walser Smith, who, beginning in 1500, reveals pacific conceptions of the nation and allows us to see the Nazis’ extreme form of nationalism not as the dark culmination point of German history but as an essential episode in Germany’s centuries-long history of continually conceiving the nation in radically different ways. Whether chronicling the Thirty Years War, the German Enlightenment, the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust or the era of Angela Merkel, Smith has created a new standard for the twenty-first-century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the author of the acclaimed The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1324091541
• ISBN 13: 9781324091547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 608
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