Shattered Past Reconstructing German Histories

Name: Shattered Past Reconstructing German Histories
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ISBN: 9780691059365

ISBN-10: 0691059365

ISBN-13: 9780691059365

Edition: 2003

Authors: Konrad H. Jarausch, Michael Geyer

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This new appreciation of German history and German historiography of the 20th century reflects the successful reconstruction of Germany as a prosperous civil society. It evaluates the catastrophe of defeat and destruction within the contexts of wider historical themes.

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.17" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Intorduction: Twentieth-Century Germany: Rethinking a Shattered Past



The Eclipse of the Master Narratives



A Return to National History? The Master Narrative and Beyond



The Collapse of the Counternarrative: Coping with the Remains of Socialism



Modernization, German Exceptionalism, and Post-Modernity: Transcending the Critical History of Society



Reconstituting German Histories



War, Genocide, Extermination: The War against the Jews in an Era of World Wars



The Totalitarian Temptation: Ordinary Germans, Dictatorship, and Democracy



From Empire to Europe: The Taming of German Power



Unsettling German Society: Mobility and Migration



A Struggle for Unity: Redefining National Identities



Defining Womanhood: The Politics of the Private



In Pursuit of Happiness: Consumption, Mass Culture, and Consumerism



Looking Back at the Twentieth Century



Survival in Catastrophe: Mending Broken Memories



The Century as History: Between Cataclysm and Civility


Index