The Continuities of German History

by Helmut Walser Smith

Book Overview

This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the German catastrophe. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities - in the concept of nation and the ideology of nationalism, in religion and religious exclusion, and in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521720257
• ISBN13: 9780521720250
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"