Germany - A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

For nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression, its nineteenth-century ascent accompanied by militarism and brought to a murderous apex in the Third Reich. Not so, asserts Helmut Walser Smith, who, beginning in 1500, reveals pacific conceptions of the nation and allows us to see the Nazis' extreme form of nationalism not as the dark culmination point of German history but as an essential episode in Germany's centuries-long history of continually conceiving the nation in radically different ways. Whether chronicling the Thirty Years War, the German Enlightenment, the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust or the era of Angela Merkel, Smith has created a new standard for the twenty-first-century.

About the author

Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the author of the acclaimed The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Product details

• Authors: Helmut Walser Smith, Helmut Walser (Vanderbilt University) Smith, Smith Helmut Walser
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2022
• EAN: 9781324091547
• ISBN: 978-1-324-09154-7
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 232 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Liveright
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, Germany, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, General & world history, Politics & government, Politics and government, General and world history