Authors: Konrad H. Jarausch, Michael Geyer
ISBN-13: 9780691059365, ISBN-10: 0691059365
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
"This is an important and thought-provoking book, full of insights and critical questions. Its originality will be recognized immediately, and its suggestions for future research will inspire and animate debate. Immensely valuable, it is full of promise for the way we think about the German past over the next decade."--Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"This is an extremely important book. The authors move with tremendous authority over two hundred years and use the caesura of 1989 and the experience of the East German dictatorship as well as the racial civil war of the Nazi period to insist on new ways of looking and writing. Their ability to hold the two lines of inquiry together--the disruptions of history and the continually disrupted writing of history--is a masterpiece of conceptual control. Bold and provocative, Shattered Past will stand as a landmark in the field."--Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A compelling, challenging analysis.
Preface | ||
Introduction: Twentieth - Century Germany: Rethinking a Shattered Past | 1 | |
Pt. I | The Eclipse of the Master Narratives | |
1 | A Return to National History? The Master Narrative and Beyond | 37 |
2 | The Collapse of the Counternarrative: Coping with the Remains of Socialism | 61 |
3 | Modernization, German Exceptionalism, and Post-Modernity: Transcending the Critical History of Society | 85 |
Pt. II | Reconstituting German Histories | |
4 | War, Genocide, Extermination: The War against the Jews in an Era of World Wars | 111 |
5 | The Totalitarian Temptation: Ordinary Germans, Dictatorship, and Democracy | 149 |
6 | From Empire to Europe: The Taming of German Power | 173 |
7 | Unsettling German Society: Mobility and Migration | 197 |
8 | A Struggle for Unity: Redefining National Identities | 221 |
9 | Defining Womanhood: The Politics of the Private | 245 |
10 | In Pursuit of Happiness: Consumption, Mass Culture, and Consumerism | 269 |
Pt. III | Looking Back at the Twentieth Century | |
11 | Survival in Catastrophe: Mending Broken Memories | 317 |
12 | The Century as History: Between Cataclysm and Civility | 342 |
Index | 371 |