Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin

by John E. Toews

Book Overview

This book examines the ways in which selfhood and cultural solidarity came to be understood and lived as historical identities during the 1800s. It examines the stages and conflicts in the process of 'becoming historical' through the works of prominent Prussian artists and intellectuals (Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Felix Mendelssohn, Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Leopold von Ranke) who attached their personal visions to the reformist agenda...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521836484
• ISBN13: 9780521836487
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"