The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century Volume 12

by Sebastian Conrad

Highly praised when published in Germany, The Quest for the Lost Nation is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259440
• ISBN13: 9780520259447
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"