Author: Berger, Stefan.
Title: The search for normality : national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800.
Description: New York : Berghahn, c2002. Reprint. Hardcover. xii,307 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - 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. This book presents an essential segment of contemporary history that so far has not been explored systematically ISBN 9781571818638.

Keywords: HISTORY, Historikerstreit