The Continuities of German History. Fluchtpunkt 1941, englische Ausgabe
The Continuities of German History. Fluchtpunkt 1941, englische Ausgabe This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological…
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The Continuities of German History. Fluchtpunkt 1941, englische Ausgabe
This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks. Against conventional wisdom, he considers continuities - in the concept of nation and the ideology of nationalism, in religion and religious exclusion, and in racism and violence - that are the center of the German historical experience and that have long histories. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the German catastrophe.
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 Smith explores these deep continuities in novel ways, emphasizing their importance, while arguing that Germany was not on a special path to destruction.