Helmut Walser Smith (Tennessee Vanderbilt University)

The Continuities of German History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have commonly been viewed as sharp chronological breaks. Against conventional wisdom, Smith argues for reexamining German continuities - nation and nationalism, religion and religious exclusion, racism and violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780521720250
• ISBN-10: 0521720257
• Artikelnr.: 23492418

Autorenporträt

Helmut Walser Smith earned his PhD at Yale. He has held the position of Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University since 1992. He is the author of German Nationalism and Religious Conflict (1995) and The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (2002), which won him the Fraenkel Prize for the best work in contemporary history and was named an LA Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The vanishing point of German history; 2. The mirror turn lamp: senses of the nation before nationalism; 3. On catastrophic religious violence and the national belonging: the Thirty Years' War and the massacre of Jews in social memory; 4. From play to act: anti-Semitic violence in German and European history during the long nineteenth century; 5. Eliminationist racism; 6. Afterword: where the Sonderweg debate left us.

Rezensionen

"Taking 1941 as the decisive culmination point in modern German history, this book offers a truly masterful analysis of the links between nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism. I know of no other study that examines in a more circumspect way and within a broad comparative framework the complex and controversial subject of how earlier discourses about the exclusion of Jews are ultimately related to their mass murder. A major scholarly achievement and challenge to both pre- and post-Goldhagen historiography." -V.R. Berghahn, Columbia University