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.…mehr
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.
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword: 'The Search For Normality' Six Years Later: History Writing and National Identity in Germany at the Beginning of the 21st Century 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. Reactions of British and American Historians to Changes in German Historiography after Reunification Chapter 11. Conclusion Biographical Appendix Select Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword: 'The Search For Normality' Six Years Later: History Writing and National Identity in Germany at the Beginning of the 21st Century 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. Reactions of British and American Historians to Changes in German Historiography after Reunification Chapter 11. Conclusion Biographical Appendix Select Bibliography Index
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