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The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century
Contributor(s): Cramer, Kevin (Author)

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 ISBN: 0803232691     ISBN-13: 9780803232693
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE: $28.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern - 19th Century
- History | Europe - Germany
Dewey: 943.07
Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.29 lbs) 404 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - Germany
 
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Publisher Description:
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 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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