Nation as a Local Metaphor

by Alon Confino

Book Overview

All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the work of political unification had been completed, but Germany remained a patchwork of regions with different histories and traditions. Germans had to construct a national memory to reconcile the peculiarities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846651
• ISBN13: 9780807846650
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"