| Description |
xvii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue : the historian's representations -- Pt. I. The local life of nationhood : Germany as Heimat, 1871-1990 -- 1. The nation as a local metaphor : Heimat, national memory, and the German empire, 1871-1918 -- 2. A century of local nationhood : Edgar Reitz's Heimat, memory, and understandings of the past, 1871-1990 -- 3. Heimat and memories of war in West Germany, 1945-1960 -- 4. Heimat, East German imagination, and an excess of reality -- 5. A national lexicon for all seasons -- Pt. II. Memory as historical narrative and method -- 6. Freud, Moses, and national memory -- 7. Collective memory and cultural history : problems of method -- 8. Telling about Germany : narratives of memory and culture -- 9. Dissonance, normality, and the historical method : why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? -- 10. Traveling as a culture of remembrance : traces of national socialism in West Germany, 1945-1960 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-300) and index |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- Germany.
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National characteristics, German.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1871- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054580 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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| LC no. |
2006005207 |
| ISBN |
0807830429 cloth alkaline paper |
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080785722X paperback alkaline paper |
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