{"product_id":"germany-inventing-the-nation-9780340705841","title":"Germany (Inventing the Nation)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGermany (Inventing the Nation)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Berger, Stefan. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780340705841.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is a Germans fatherland?, asked Ernst Moritz Arndt at the\nbeginning of the nineteenth century. This has arguably been the central\nquestion of modern German history. Germans did not have a united\nfatherland until 1871, and, thereafter, major political events in 1918,\n1933, 1945, 1968 and 1989 ensured that the answers to Arndts question\nproliferated and diverged with breath-taking speed.\n\n\n\nGermany\nexplains the diverse ways in which national identity has been\nconstructed over more than three centuries. It focuses on the plurality\nof contested definitions of Germanness. The themes covered include the\nstruggles between democratic and non-democratic inventions of the\nnation, the construction of the racial nation under Nazism, economic\ndefinitions of the nation, foreigners and Germanness, the nation as a\ncommunity of memory, the gendering of the national discourse, the\nfederal nature of German nationalism and the impact of war on the\nconstruction of a German national identity. This is a fundamental\nreappraisal of Germanys history from a perspective available only now\nthat the dust from the demolished Berlin Wall is settling in a reunited\nGermany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44429661044789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0340705841","price":41.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780340705841_658e60da-0de4-426e-aabc-99f82aaca3dc.jpg?v=1781205033","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/germany-inventing-the-nation-9780340705841","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}