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Author: Geoff Eley
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is based on papers delivered at the conference 'Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany, ' ... Oxford, UK, on September 10-12, 2004"--Acknowledgements.
Author: Len Scales
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 0521573335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerman identity, a key force in history, took shape during the late Middle Ages. This book explains how and why.
Author: Andreas Staab
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1998-03-30
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the development from the divided to the unified Germany and asks to what extent East Germans have adopted a national identity in line with that of the West Germans. The text examines such identity markers as attitudes toward territory, economics, ethnicity and mass culture.
Author: Mary Fulbrook
Publisher: Polity
Published: 1999-08-25
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745610450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over half a century, Germans have lived in the shadow of Auschwitz. Who was responsible for the mass murder of millions of people in the Holocaust: just a small gang of evil men, Hitler and his henchmen; or certain groups within a particular system; or even the whole nation? Could the roots of malignancy be traced far back in German history? Or did the Holocaust have more to do with European modernity? Should Germans live with a legacy of guilt forever? And how, if at all, could an acceptable German national identity be defined? These questions dogged public debates in both East and West Germany in the long period of division. Both states officially claimed to have "overcome the past" more effectively than the other; both sought to construct new, opposing identities as the "better Germany". But, in different ways, official claims ran at odds with the kaleidoscope of popular collective memories; dissonances, sensitivities and taboos were the order of the day on both sides of the Wall. And in the 1990s, with continued heated debates over past and present, it was clear that inner unity appeared to be no automatic consequence of formal unification. Drawing on a wide range of material - from landscapes of memory and rituals of commemoration, through private diaries, oral history interviews and public opinion poll surveys, to the speeches of politicians and the writings of professional historians - Fulbrook provides a clear analysis of key controversies, events and patterns of historical and national consciousness in East and West Germany in equal depth. Arguing against "essentialist" conceptions of the nation, Fulbrook presents a theory of the nation as a constructed community of shared legacy and common destiny, and shows how the conditions for the easy construction of any such identity have been notably lacking in Germany after the Holocaust. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in history, politics, and German and European Studies, as well as established scholars and interested members of the public.
Author: Siobhan Kattago
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001-07-30
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores East and West German responses to their Nazi past and the role of memory in the building of a new national identity in reunified Germany.
Author: Jan Vermeiren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-18
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1107031672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative study of the impact of the wartime alliance between Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary on German national identity.
Author: Stefan Berger
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781571816207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author follows the debates beyond the unexpected unification of the country in 1989/90 and analyses the most recent trends in German historiography, hoping that it doesn't return to the stifling homogeneity that characterized it before the 1960s.
Author: Geoff Eley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780472081325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the conditions under which a particular right-wing ideology was generated
Author: Kateřina Čapková
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0857454749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it was possible to change one's national identity or even to opt for more than one such identity without necessarily experiencing any far-reaching consequences in everyday life. Based on many hitherto unknown archival sources from the Czech Republic, Israel and Austria, the author's research reveals the inner dynamic of each of the national movements and maps out the three most important constructions of national identity within Bohemian Jewry - the German-Jewish, the Czech-Jewish and the Zionist. This book provides a needed framework for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European Jewry.
Author: Jeremy Brooke Straughn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-09
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1351613413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany in the wake of German reunification. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of the former German Democratic Republic were confronted with a dilemma: Were they already Germans without qualification, like their compatriots in the West? Or did they remain "East Germans" for the time being, with an identity tied to their distinct past, as if they were foreigners who had migrated without leaving home? How Memory Divides shows that these questions remain unresolved even today, less because of any "incomplete unity" between Germans in West and East, than because of the contradictory ways in which "easterners" themselves have remembered their past. Drawing on a unique study spanning two decades, the author reveals how divergent biographical memories have given rise to life stories with a diverse array of genres and storylines at odds with official accounts of the GDR and its demise. Over time, efforts to effect unity between West and East have reproduced divisions within the East. This book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics with interests in memory, heritage, and identity.
