Germany as a culture of remembrance : promises and limits of writing history
Presents a critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. This work contains ten essays that offer a distinct view of German nationhood in particular and of nationhood in general as a product of collective negotiation and exchange between the many memories that exist in the nation.
Print Book, English, 2001
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2001
History
xvii, 306 pages, 27 unnumbered of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780807830420, 9780807857229, 0807830429, 080785722X
1141102266
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