Sweeping the German Nation: Domesticity and National Identity in Germany, 1870-1945

by Nancy Ruth Reagin

Book Overview

Is cleanliness next to Germanness, as some 19th century nationalists insisted? This book explores the relationship between gender roles, domesticity, and German national identity between 1870-1945. After German unification, approaches to household management that had originally emerged among the bourgeoisie became central to German national identity by 1914. Thrift, order, and extreme cleanliness, along with particular domestic markers (such as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521841135
• ISBN13: 9780521841139
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"