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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Confino, Alon. Germany as a culture of remembrance. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)802298902 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alon Confino |
ISBN: | 0807830429 9780807830420 080785722X 9780807857229 |
OCLC Number: | 64084698 |
Description: | xvii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Alon Confino. |
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Abstract:
Presents a critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. This work contains ten essays that offer a distinct view of German nationhood in particular and of nationhood in general as a product of collective negotiation and exchange between the many memories that exist in the nation.
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