Continuities of German History Nation, Religion, and Race Across the Long Nineteenth Century

Name: Continuities of German History Nation, Religion, and Race Across the Long Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521720250

ISBN-10: 0521720257

ISBN-13: 9780521720250

Edition: 2008

Authors: Helmut Walser Smith

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This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the German catastrophe. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities in the concept of nation and the ideology of nationalism, in religion and religious exclusion, and in racism and violence that are the center of the German historical experience and that have long histories. Smith explores these deep continuities in novel ways, emphasizing their importance, while arguing that Germany was not on a special path to…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




The vanishing point of German history



The mirror turn lamp: senses of the nation before nationalism



On catastrophic religious violence and the national belonging: the Thirty YearsG++ War and the massacre of Jews in social memory



From play to act: anti-Semitic violence in German and European history during the long nineteenth century



Eliminationist racism



Afterword: where the Sonderweg debate left us