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Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History
Alon Confino
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10 colour & 35 b&w illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. In ten essays (three never before published and one published only in German), Confino offers 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. The first group of essays centers on the period from 1871 to 1990 and explores how Germans used conceptions of the local, or ... Read more
An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. In ten essays (three never before published and one published only in German), Confino offers 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. The first group of essays centers on the period from 1871 to 1990 and explores how Germans used conceptions of the local, or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807857229
SKU
V9780807857229
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About Alon Confino
ALON CONFINO is professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is author of the award-winning The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory (from the University of North Carolina Press) and coeditor of The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture.
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