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

Title remainder

national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800

Statement of responsibility

Stefan Berger

Creator

• Berger, Stefan

Subject

• Conservatism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Germany -- Historiography
• History
• Conservatism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
• Political culture -- Germany
• Nationalism -- Germany

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• 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 1989/90 and analyses the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake efforts on the extreme Right to re-establish a nationalist historiography. Even among the liberal-conservative mainstream of German historiography, an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation-state has begun. Nor have the critical historians been unaffected by this
• As a result, so the author fears, the contested definition of national identity might strengthen, in his eyes, the unwelcome predominance of the national perspective in historical research

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

907/.2043

Index

index present

LC call number

DD204

LC item number

.B475 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography