ISBN:
9780807830420
,
0807830429
,
9780807857229
,
080785722X
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 306 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Year of publication:
2006
DDC:
943.08072
Keywords:
Memory Social aspects
;
Germany
;
Memory Political aspects
;
Germany
;
National characteristics, German
;
Germany History
;
Historiography
;
1871-
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Deutschland
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte 1871-1990
;
Deutschland
;
Heimat
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichtsschreibung
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006005207.html
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