Description |
xvii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-300) and index. |
Contents |
Prologue: the historian's representations -- The local life of nationhood: Germany as Heimat, 1871-1990 -- The nation as a local metaphor: Heimat, national memory, and the German empire, 1871-1918 -- A century of local nationhood: Edgar Reitz's Heimat, memory, and understandings of the past, 1871-1990 -- Heimat and memories of war in West Germany, 1945-1960 -- Heimat, East German imagination, and an excess of reality -- A national lexicon for all seasons -- Memory as historical narrative and method -- Freud, Moses, and national memory -- Collective memory and cultural history: problems of method -- Telling about Germany: narratives of memory and culture -- Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? -- Traveling as a culture of remembrance: traces of National Socialism in West Germany, 1945-1960. |
Subject |
Germany -- History -- 1871- -- Historiography.
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Germany. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
1871- |
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Historiography. |
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Collective memory -- Germany.
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Collective memory. |
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National characteristics, German.
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National characteristics, German. |
ISBN |
080785722X paperback alkaline paper |
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0807830429 cloth alkaline paper |
Standard No. |
9780807830420 |
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9780807857229 |
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