The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century
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The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century

The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century

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Helmut Walser Smith (Author)  

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This book opens the debate about German history in the long term - about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of German history. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the catastrophes at the center of German history. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities - nation and nationalism, religion and religious exclusion, racism and violence - that are the center of the German historical experience and that have long histories. Smith explores these deep continuities in novel ways, emphasizing their importance, while arguing that Germany was not on a special path to destruction. The result is a series of innovative reflections on the crystallization of nationalist ideology, on patterns of anti-Semitism, and on how the nineteenth-century vocabulary of race structured the twentieth-century genocidal imagination. Worked examples or Exercises
Helmut Walser Smith earned his PhD at Yale. He has held the position of Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University since 1992. He is the author of German Nationalism and Religious Conflict (1995) and The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (2002), which won him the Fraenkel Prize for the best work in contemporary history and was named an LA Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
  • Contributor: Helmut Walser Smith
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780521720250
  • Number of Pages: 254
  • Packaged Dimensions: 153x228x14mm
  • Packaged Weight: 350
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2008-04-14
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Helmut Walser Smith earned his PhD at Yale. He has held the position of Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University since 1992. He is the author of German Nationalism and Religious Conflict (1995) and The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (2002), which won him the Fraenkel Prize for the best work in contemporary history and was named an LA Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

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