History, Fiction, and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation

by Brent O. Peterson

A study of the content, development, and transmission of German identity during the nineteenth century as Germany's national narrative took shape in historical fiction and in both popular and academic history.

The German-speaking inhabitants of central Europe did not automatically think of themselves as "Germans"--not before 1871 and not always after unification. In fact, they spoke mutually incomprehensible dialects, owed allegiance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332005
• ISBN13: 9780814332009
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"