The Search for Normality

National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-1-57181-863-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 638 g

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 debates surrounding the nation state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Foreword: ‘The Search For Normality’ Six Years Later: History Writing and National Identity in Germany at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Chapter 1. Historiography and Nation-Building: Some Preliminary Remarks

PART I: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN GERMANY 1800-1989

Chapter 2. The National Tradition in German Historiography, 1800-1960

Chapter 3. The Impact of Fritz Fischer

Chapter 4. Decades of Postnationalism? German Historiography from the 1960s to the 1980s

PART II: THE SEARCH FOR NORMALITY AFTER 1990

Chapter 5. Imperial Germany and the Sonderweg Revisited

Chapter 6. Germany’s Darkest Years Revisited

Chapter 7. ‘The Second German Dictatorship’

Chapter 8. The Old Federal Republic as the New Sonderweg

Chapter 9. The National Revival in German Historiography

Chapter 10. Reactions of British and American Historians to Changes in German Historiography after Reunification

Chapter 11. Conclusion

Biographical Appendix

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berger, Stefan
Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, where he is also Director of the Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence. Between 2003 and 2008 he directed the European Science Foundation Programme on 'Representations of the Past. The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) He has published widely in the areas of historiography, national identity and labour history.

Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, where he is also Director of the Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence. Between 2003 and 2008 he directed the European Science Foundation Programme on 'Representations of the Past. The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) He has published widely in the areas of historiography, national identity and labour history.