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001 2011015743
003 DLC
005 20120412101016.0
008 110411s2012 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aDD175$b.H35 2012
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100 1 $aHagen, William W.
245 10 $aGerman history in modern times :$bfour lives of the nation /$cWilliam W. Hagen.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $axviii, 463 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture, and political power, contrasting German with western patterns. Rather than treating "the Germans" as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire; the nineteenth century; the 1914-1945 era of war, dictatorship, and genocide; and the Cold War and post-Cold War eras since 1945 as successive worlds of German life, thought, and mentality. The book sets forth the differences between them, even as it traces paths leading from one to the other. This book's "German" is polycentric and multicultural, including the multi-national Austrian Habsburg Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism offers a comceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The book's numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and styles of life, which often contrast with western ideas of Germany"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
651 0 $aGermany$xHistory.
650 0 $aGermans$zEurope, Central$xHistory.
651 0 $aEurope, Central$xHistory.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011015743-b.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1111/2011015743-t.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2011015743-d.html