Research Catalog

Title

Germany as a culture of remembrance : promises and limits of writing history / Alon Confino.

Author

Confino, Alon.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

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Description

xvii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.

Subject

• Collective memory > Germany
• National characteristics, German
• Germany > History > Historiography. > 1871-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-300) and index.

Contents

Prologue: the historian's representations -- The local life of nationhood: Germany as Heimat, 1871-1990 -- The nation as a local metaphor: Heimat, national memory, and the German empire, 1871-1918 -- A century of local nationhood: Edgar Reitz's Heimat, memory, and understandings of the past, 1871-1990 -- Heimat and memories of war in West Germany, 1945-1960 -- Heimat, East German imagination, and an excess of reality -- A national lexicon for all seasons -- Memory as historical narrative and method -- Freud, Moses, and national memory -- Collective memory and cultural history: problems of method -- Telling about Germany: narratives of memory and culture -- Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? -- Traveling as a culture of remembrance: traces of National Socialism in West Germany, 1945-1960.

Call Number

JFE 06-12821

ISBN

• 0807830429 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 080785722X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006005207
• 9780807830420
• 9780807857229

OCLC

64084698

Author

Confino, Alon.

Title

Germany as a culture of remembrance : promises and limits of writing history / Alon Confino.

Imprint

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-300) and index.

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Other Standard Identifier

9780807830420

9780807857229

Research Call Number

JFE 06-12821