The Unmasterable Past - History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a New Preface

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.

Sommario

Preface, 1997 Preface to the Original Edition Introduction The Stakes of the Controversy Habermas among the Historians A Holocaust like the Others? Problems of Comparative History German History as Case History A Usable Past? Museums, Memory, and Identity Epilogue: Whose Holocaust? Whose History? Notes Index

Info autore

Charles S. Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has written a number of award-winning books, including Recasting Bourgeois Europe, The Unmasterable Past, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany, and Once Within Borders.

Riassunto

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Charles S. Maier, Maier Charles S.
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.03.1998
• EAN: 9780674929777
• ISBN: 978-0-674-92977-7
• Peso: 363 g
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Sistema politico; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, Germany, Second World War, The Holocaust, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1940 to c 1949, Political structure and processes, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust