Roots of German Nationalism
Author | : Louis Leo Snyder |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1978 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105081057247 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
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Author | : Louis Leo Snyder |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1978 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105081057247 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Author | : Helmut Walser Smith |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781631491788 |
ISBN-13 | : 1631491784 |
Rating | : 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past. For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II—challenges traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians have imagined. Smith’s dramatic narrative begins with the earliest glimmers of a nation in the 1500s, when visionary mapmakers and adventuresome travelers struggled to delineate and define this embryonic nation. Contrary to widespread perception, the people who first described Germany were pacific in temperament, and the pernicious ideology of German nationalism would only enter into the nation’s history centuries later. Tracing the significant tension between the idea of the nation and the ideology of its nationalism, Smith shows a nation constantly reinventing itself and explains how radical nationalism ultimately turned Germany into a genocidal nation. Smith’s aim, then, is nothing less than to redefine our understanding of Germany: Is it essentially a bellicose nation that murdered over six million people? Or a pacific, twenty-first-century model of tolerant democracy? And was it inevitable that the land that produced Goethe and Schiller, Heinrich Heine and Käthe Kollwitz, would also carry out genocide on an unprecedented scale? Combining poignant prose with an historian’s rigor, Smith recreates the national euphoria that accompanied the beginning of World War I, followed by the existential despair caused by Germany’s shattering defeat. This psychic devastation would simultaneously produce both the modernist glories of the Bauhaus and the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. Nowhere is Smith’s mastery on greater display than in his chapter on the Holocaust, which looks at the killing not only through the tragedies of Western Europe but, significantly, also through the lens of the rural hamlets and ghettos of Poland and Eastern Europe, where more than 80% of all the Jews murdered originated. He thus broadens the extent of culpability well beyond the high echelons of Hitler’s circle all the way to the local level. Throughout its pages, Germany also examines the indispensable yet overlooked role played by German women throughout the nation’s history, highlighting great artists and revolutionaries, and the horrific, rarely acknowledged violence that war wrought on women. Richly illustrated, with original maps created by the author, Germany: A Nation in Its Time is a sweeping account that does nothing less than redefine our understanding of Germany for the twenty-first century.
Author | : Jakob Norberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2022-04-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781009081856 |
ISBN-13 | : 1009081853 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
In the first comprehensive English-language portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg reveals how history's two most famous folklorists envisioned the role of literary and linguistic scholars in defining national identity. Convinced of the political relevance of their folk tale collections and grammatical studies, the Brothers Grimm argued that they could help disentangle language groups from one another, redraw the boundaries of states in Europe, and counsel kings and princes on the proper extent and character of their rule. They sought not only to recover and revive a neglected native culture for a contemporary audience, but also to facilitate a more harmonious and enduring relationship between the traditional political elite and an emerging national collective. Through close historical analysis, Norberg reconstructs how the Grimms wished to mediate between sovereigns and peoples, politics and culture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Dr. Louis L. Snyder |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781787203846 |
ISBN-13 | : 1787203840 |
Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
“It is a most unusual picture that meets our eyes, varying in color from the black and white of ultra-conservative, traditional nationalism to the red of radicalism and the black and red of national socialism. The Germany of 1862-1935 has known every array of nationalism, from the Jacobin variety through humanitarian nationalism and passionate Hitlerite super-nationalism. It is our purpose to clarify this background, to show on what foundation modern integral nationalism rests. The task of selecting the most important elements from this distorted picture is an extremely difficult one, but the attempt, at least, must be made.”
Author | : Stefan Berger |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789633861998 |
ISBN-13 | : 9633861993 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing "economic nationalism" as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic 'nation-building', and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic "nationness"—from national economic symbols and memories, to the "banal" world of product communication. The editors seeks to highlight the importance of economic issues for the study of nations and nationalism, and its findings point to the need to give economic phenomena a more prominent place in the field of nationalism studies. The authors of the essays come from disciplines as diverse as economic and cultural history, political science, business studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. Their chapters address the nationalism-economy nexus in a variety of realms, including trade, foreign investment, and national control over resources, as well as consumption, migration, and welfare state policies. Some of the case studies have a historical focus on nation-building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while others are concerned with contemporary developments. Several contributions provide in-depth analyses of single cases while others employ a comparative method. The geographical focus of the contributions vary widely, although, on balance, the majority of our authors deal with European countries.
Author | : Hagen Schulze |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1991-03-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521377595 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521377591 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
The arduous path from the colourful diversity of the Holy Roman Empire to the Prussian-dominated German nation-state, Bismarck's German Empire of 1871, led through revolutions, wars and economic upheavals, but also through the cultural splendour of German Classicism and Romanticism. Hagen Schulze takes a fresh look at late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German history, explaining it as the interaction of revolutionary forces from below and from above, of economics, politics, and culture. None of the results were predetermined, and yet their outcome was of momentous significance for all of Europe, if not the world.
Author | : Guntram Henrik Herb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2002-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134797905 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134797907 |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Using extensive, previously undiscovered archival documentation, the author provides an analysis of the history and techniques of nationalist mapping in inter-War Germany and challenges the belief that national self-determination is a just cause.
Author | : Eric H. Vieler |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : UCBK:C068154379 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
The research reveals linkages among three dominant strains of racist thought: mythological/intellectual, its roots in ancient saga, proclaimed the Nordic as the ideal race and urged its regeneration; biological, based on Darwinian theory, became the "scientific" basis for the claim of German superiority and was the dominant influence on Hitler; nationalist/conservative, called for a strong state to be governed by a single individual.
Author | : Larry Eugene Jones |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781782383536 |
ISBN-13 | : 1782383530 |
Rating | : 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular emphasis on the political and organizational history of Rightist groups as well as on the many permutations of right-wing ideology during the period. In particular, antisemitism and the so-called “Jewish Question” played a prominent role in the self-definition and politics of the right-wing groups and ideologies explored by the contributors to this volume.
Author | : Caspar Hirschi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-12-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781139502306 |
ISBN-13 | : 1139502301 |
Rating | : 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the legacy of Roman imperialism in the Middle Ages. Hirschi identifies the earliest nationalists among Renaissance humanists, exploring their public roles and ambitions to offer new insight into the history of political scholarship in Europe and arguing that their adoption of ancient role models produced massive contradictions between their self-image and political function. This book demonstrates that only through understanding the development of the politics, scholarship and art of pre-modern Europe can we fully grasp the global power of nationalism in a modern political context.