Quest for the Lost Nation

Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century

AvSebastian Conrad

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Del 12 i serien California World History Library

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Beskrivning

Highly praised when published in Germany, "The Quest for the Lost Nation" is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War-II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not abandon national perspectives during reconstruction. Quite the opposite - the nation remained hidden at the center of texts as scholars tried to make sense of the past and searched for fragments of the nation they had lost. By situating both countries in the Cold War, Conrad shows that the focus on the nation can be understood only within a transnational context.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:California World History Library
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520259447
Översättare:Nothnagle, Alan

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Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Sebastian Conrad is Professor of History at the European University Institute in Florence. Conrad is also the author of Globalisation and Nation in Imperial Germany and has edited, together with Dominic Sachsenmaier, Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s.

Recensioner i media

"The Quest for the Lost Nation should be celebrated as the first book of its kind." -- Franziska Seraphim Monumenta Nipponica "An important examination of the context and content of historical scholarship in postwar Germany and Japan." Central European History

Innehållsförteckning

Contents Introduction 1. Mapping Postwar Historiography in Germany and Japan 2. The Origin of the Nation: Bismarck, Meiji Ishin, and the Subject of History 3. The Nation as Victim: Writing the History of National Socialism and Japanese Fascism 4. The Invention of Contemporary History 5. The Temporalization of Space: Germany and Japan between East and West 6. History and Memory: Germany and Japan, 1945--2 Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index