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Author Conrad, Sebastian.

Title The quest for the lost nation : writing history in Germany and Japan in the American century / Sebastian Conrad ; translated by Alan Nothnagle.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Series The California world history library ; 12
California world history library ; 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-376) and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Mapping Postwar Historiography in Germany and Japan; 2. The Origin of the Nation: Bismarck, Meiji Ishin, and the Subject of History; 3. The Nation as Victim: Writing the History of National Socialism and Japanese Fascism; 4. The Invention of Contemporary History; 5. The Temporalization of Space: Germany and Japan between East and West; 6. History and Memory: Germany and Japan, 1945-2000; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary Highly praised when published in Germany, The Quest for the Lost Nation is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not abandon national perspectives during reconstruction. Quite the opposite--the nation remained hidden at the center of texts as scholars tried to mak.
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Language Translated from the German.
Subject Germany -- Historiography.
Germany.
Historiography.
Japan -- Historiography.
Japan.
Historiography -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Historiography -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Germany.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Social aspects.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Japan.
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Nation. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010021146
Other Form: Print version: The quest for the lost nation Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. 9780520259447 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2010013362
ISBN 9780520945814 ebook
0520945816
9780520259447 cloth alkaline paper
0520259440 cloth alkaline paper
1282697706
9781282697706