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Author Confino, Alon.

Title Germany as a culture of remembrance : promises and limits of writing history / Alon Confino.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Stacks  DD220 .C66 2006    Available  ---
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.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 1871-
Subject Historiography.
Collective memory -- Germany.
Collective memory.
National characteristics, German.
National characteristics, German.
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