LEADER 05381cam a2200493 i 4500001 282224 005 20240621235101.0 008 191031t20202020nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 2019050560 019 1202011756 020 9780871404664 |q(hardcover) 020 0871404664 |q(hardcover) 020 |z9781631491788 |q(electronic publication) 024 8 16237679 035 (OCoLC)on1127066588 035 282224 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBDX |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dTOH |dRNL |dYDX |dGYG |dYGV |dVP@ |dOCLCQ |dORE |dRIOSL |dYUS |dS1C |dVU@ |dLHM 050 00 DD76 |b.S645 2020 100 1 Smith, Helmut Walser, |d1962- |eauthor. 245 10 Germany, a nation in its time : |bbefore, during, and after nationalism, 1500-2000 / |cHelmut Walser Smith. 246 18 Germany 250 First edition. 264 1 New York, NY : |bLiveright Publishing Corporation, |c[2020] 264 4 |c©2020 300 xvi, 590 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 386 |mOccupation/field of activity group: |noccUniversity and college faculty members |2lcdgt 386 |mNational/regional group: |nnatTennesseans |2lcdgt 520 For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking five-hundred-year history - the first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II - challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians imagined. Smith's dramatic narrative begins with the earliest glimmers of a nation in the 1500s, when visionary mapmakers and adventuresome travelers struggled to delineate and define this embryonic nation. Contrary to widespread perception, the people who first described Germany were pacific in temperament, and the pernicious ideology of German nationalism would only enter into the nation's history centuries later. Tracing the significant tension between the idea of the nation and the ideology of its nationalism, Smith shows a nation constantly reinventing itself and explains how radical nationalism ultimately turned Germany into a genocidal nation. Smith's aim, then, is nothing less than to redefine our understanding of Germany: Is it essentially a bellicose nation that murdered more than six million people? Or a pacific, twenty-first-century model of tolerant democracy? And was it inevitable that the land that produced Goethe and Schiller, Heinrich Heine and Käthe Kollwitz, would also carry out mass murder on an unprecedented scale? Combining poignant prose with an historian's rigor, Smith, for example, re-creates the national euphoria that accompanied the beginning of World War I, followed by the existential despair caused by Germany's shattering defeat. This psychic devastation would simultaneously produce both the modernist glories of the Bauhaus and the meteoric rise of the Nazi Party. Nowhere is Smith's mastery on greater display than in his chapter on the Holocaust, which looks at the killing not only through the tragedies of Western Europe but, significantly, also through the lens of the rural hamlets and ghettos of Poland and Eastern Europe, which were the origin of more than 80 percent of all the Jews murdered. He thus broadens the extent of culpability well beyond the high echelons of Hitler's circle all the way to the local level. Throughout its pages, Germany also examines the indispensable yet overlooked role played by women throughout the nation's history, highlighting great artists and revolutionaries, and the horrific, rarely acknowledged violence that war wrought on women. Richly illustrated, with original maps created by the author, Germany: A Nation in Its Time is a sweeping account that does nothing less than redefine our understanding of Germany for the twenty-first century. -- |cFrom dust jacket. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-560) and index. 505 00 |gPART I |tNATION BEFORE NATIONALISM -- |tSeeing Germany for the First Time (c. 1500) -- |t"Germany ... As If in a Mirror" (c. 1500-1580) -- |tTears of Stoics (c. 1580-1700) -- |gPART II |tCOPERNICAN TURN -- |tPartition and Patriotism (c. 1700-1770) -- |tSurface and the Interior (c. 1770-1790) -- |tDe l'Allemagne (c. 1790-1815) -- |gPART III |tAGE OF NATIONALISM -- |tDeveloping Nation (c. 1815-1850) -- |tNation Shapes (c. 1850-1870) -- |tObjective Nation (c. 1870-1914) -- |gPART IV |tNATIONALIST AGE -- |tSacrifice For (c. 1914-1933) -- |tSacrifice Of (c. 1933-1941) -- |tDeath Spaces (c. 1941-1945) -- |gPART V |tAFTER NATIONALISM -- |tA Living Concept of Fatherland (c. 1945-1950) -- |tPresence of Compassion (c. 1950-2000) -- |gEpilogue: |tRepublic of the Germans at the Beginning of the Twenty-Second Century. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Nationalism |zGermany. 651 0 Germany |xHistory. 650 7 HISTORY |zEurope |xGermany. |2bisacsh 650 7 Nationalism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01033832 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 852 0 |bscstacks |hDD76 |i.S645 2020