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[EAN: 9780340705841], Neubuch, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London], Paperback. 'What is a German's fatherland?', asked Ernst Moritz Arndt at thebeginning of the nineteenth century. Th… Altro …

[EAN: 9780340705841], Neubuch, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London], Paperback. 'What is a German's fatherland?', asked Ernst Moritz Arndt at thebeginning of the nineteenth century. This has arguably been the centralquestion of modern German history. Germans did not have a unitedfatherland until 1871, and, thereafter, major political events in 1918,1933, 1945, 1968 and 1989 ensured that the answers to Arndt's questionproliferated and diverged with breath-taking speed.Germanyexplains the diverse ways in which national identity has beenconstructed over more than three centuries. It focuses on the pluralityof contested definitions of Germanness'. The themes covered include thestruggles between democratic and non-democratic inventions of thenation, the construction of the racial nation under Nazism, economicdefinitions of the nation, foreigners and Germanness', the nation as acommunity of memory', the gendering of the national discourse, thefederal nature of German nationalism and the impact of war on theconstruction of a German national identity. This is a fundamentalreappraisal of Germany's history from a perspective available only nowthat the dust from the demolished Berlin Wall is settling in a reunitedGermany. 'What is a German's fatherland?' This has arguably been the centralquestion of modern German history. Germanyexplains the diverse ways in which national identity has beenconstructed over more than three centuries. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability., Books<

ISBN: 9780340705841

''What is a German''s fatherland?'', asked Ernst Moritz Arndt at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This has arguably been the central question of modern German history. Germans did… Altro …

''What is a German''s fatherland?'', asked Ernst Moritz Arndt at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This has arguably been the central question of modern German history. Germans did not have a united fatherland until 1871, and, thereafter, major political events in 1918, 1933, 1945, 1968 and 1989 ensured that the answers to Arndt''s question proliferated and diverged with breath-taking speed.Germany explains the diverse ways in which national identity has been constructed over more than three centuries. It focuses on the plurality of contested definitions of ''Germanness''. The themes covered include the struggles between democratic and non-democratic inventions of the nation, the construction of the racial nation under Nazism, economic definitions of the nation, foreigners and ''Germanness'', the nation as a ''community of memory'', the gendering of the national discourse, the federal nature of German nationalism and the impact of war on the construction of a German national identity. This is a fundamental reappraisal of Germany''s history from a perspective available only now that the dust from the demolished Berlin Wall is settling in a reunited Germany. Books List_Books, [PU: Hodder & Stoughton, Hodder Headline]<

ISBN: 9780340705841

Paperback, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC], 'What is a German's fatherland?' This has arguably been the central question of modern German history. Germany explains the diverse ways in w… Altro …

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