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The Continuities of German History
Helmut Walser Smith
其他書名
Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century
出版Cambridge University Press, 2008-04-07
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War IHistory / Social History
ISBN11394712529781139471251
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ttTASH5eDx4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.