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

by Helmut Walser Smith

Book Overview

For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history--the first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II--challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians have imagined.

Smith's dramatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404664
• ISBN13: 9780871404664
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"