Making Prussians, Raising Germans - A Cultural History of Prussian State Building After Civil War, 1866

Informationen zum Autor Jasper Heinzen is a lecturer in modern European history at the University of York, having taught before at the Universität Bern, Switzerland. He has published on the Second German Empire, European international relations and the place of the Napoleonic Wars in European collective memory, and is currently writing a book about the use of honour codes as a transnational medium of communication among prisoners of war in the nineteenth century. His work has been awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation on Lower Saxon History by the Historical Commission of Lower Saxony and Bremen, and the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize, and his research has been funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and a Marie Curie Fellowship. Klappentext An investigation into why the creation of nation-states coincided with bouts of civil war in the nineteenth-century Western world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Military state-building in war and peace; 2. Rites of purification, rites of memory; 3. Managing the public sphere; 4. The pedagogy of patriotism; 5. State-building in gendered perspective; 6. The Prussian state recast in 1918; Conclusion.

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• Autori: Jasper Heinzen, Jasper (University of York) Heinzen
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781316648308
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64830-8
• Pagine: 386
• Serie: New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards