Constructing Germany -- A movement of 'marginal men': the national idea until 1819 -- Nationalism in search of a mass audience, 1819-1871 -- Making Germans, 1871-1914 -- The mythologies of war and the republican nation, 1914-1933 -- The racial nation, 1933-1945 -- Toward 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 -- Reinventing Germany for the twenty-first century.