The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) - Hardcover

Cramer, Kevin

 
9780803215627: The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0803215622 ISBN 13: 9780803215627
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2007

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The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public's obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history-the Thirty Years' War-resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, century-long debate over the origins and aftermath of the war. The core of this bitter argument was a clash between Protestant and Catholic historians over the cultural criteria determining authentic German identity and the territorial and political form of the future German nation. This groundbreaking study of modern Germany's morbid fascination with the war explores the ideological uses of history writing, commemoration, and collective remembrance to show how the passionate argument over the "meaning" of the Thirty Years' War shaped the Germans' conception of their nation. The first book in the extensive literature on German history writing to examine how modern German historians reinterpreted a specific event to define national identity and legitimate political and ideological agendas, The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century is a bold intellectual history of the confluence of history writing, religion, culture, and politics in nineteenth-century Germany. Kevin Cramer is an associate professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

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Kevin Cramer is an associate professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803215622
ISBN 13 
9780803215627
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Anzahl der Seiten
404
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