The Search for Normality: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800

by Stefan Berger

Book Overview

The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1990 and analyzes the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation state. For anyone interested in the development of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816208
• ISBN13: 9781571816207
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"