Germany: Memories Of A Nation

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, t his is a view of Germany like no other For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental E urope. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much d o we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understa nd themselves Neil MacGregor argues that uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germ any both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers hav e constantly floated. Knigsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral J ohann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distin ctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct histo ry. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves b efore 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. Beginning with the fifteenth-century invention of modern printing by Gutenberg, MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places which s.

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ISBN: 014197978X

ISBN-13: 9780141979786

Publisher: Penguin

Year: 2016

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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