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The search for normality national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800

The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1990 and analyzes the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake an urgent search for the ""normality"" of the nation state. For anyone interested in the development of the national master narrative in more recent German historiography, this book will provide an essential guide through the multitude of historical de.

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  • "The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1990 and analyzes the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake an urgent search for the ""normality"" of the nation state. For anyone interested in the development of the national master narrative in more recent German historiography, this book will provide an essential guide through the multitude of historical de."@en
  • "The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected unification of the country in 1989/90 and analyses the most recent trends in German historiography, hoping that it doesn't return to the stifling homogeneity that characterized it before the 1960s."
  • "The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1989/90 and analyses the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake efforts on the extreme Right to re-establish a nationalist historiography. Even among the liberal-conservative mainstream of German historiography, an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation-state has begun. Nor have the critical historians been unaffected by this."

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  • "History"
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  • "The search for normality national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800"@en
  • "The search for normality : national identity and historical conciousness in Germany since 1800"
  • "The Search for Normality : national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800"
  • "The search for normality : national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800"@pl
  • "The search for normality : national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800"@en
  • "The search for normality : national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800"

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