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The Search for Normality
National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800
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The Search for Normality
National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800
About this book
The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1990 and analyzes the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation state. For anyone interested in the development of the national master narrative in more recent German historiography, this book will provide an essential guide through the multitude of historical debates surrounding the nation state.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Historiography and Nation-Building: Some Preliminary Remarks
- Part I: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany 1800-1989
- Chapter 2: The National Tradition in German Historiography, 1800-1960
- Chapter 3: The Impact of Fritz Fischer
- Chapter 4: Decades of Postnationalism?: German Historiography from the 1960s to the 1980s
- Part II: The Search for Normality After 1990
- Chapter 5: Imperial Germany and the Sonderweg Revisited
- Chapter 6: Germany's Darkest Years Revisited
- Chapter 7: 'The Second German Dictatorship'
- Chapter 8: The Old Federal Republic as the New Sonderweg
- Chapter 9: The National Revival in German Historiography
- Chapter 10: The Reactions of British and American Historians to Changes in German Historiography after Reunification
- Chapter 11: Conclusion
- Biographical Appendix
- Select Bibliography
- Index