Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 246 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511817199
Content:
This book opens the debate about German history in the long term – about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of German history. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the catastrophes at the center of German history. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities - nation and nationalism, religion and religious exclusion, 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 destruction. The result is a series of innovative reflections on the crystallization of nationalist ideology, on patterns of anti-Semitism, and on how the nineteenth-century vocabulary of race structured the twentieth-century genocidal imagination
Content:
The vanishing point of German history -- The mirror turn lamp: senses of the nation before nationalism -- On catastrophic religious violence and national belonging: the Thirty Years War and the massacre of Jews in social memory -- From play to act: anti-Jewish violence in German and European history during the long nineteenth century -- Eliminationist racism -- Conclusion: Continuities in German history
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521895880
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521720250
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521895880
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511817199
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