The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a New Preface

Maier, Charles S.

ISBN 10: 0674929772 / ISBN 13: 9780674929777

Published by Harvard University Press (edition Reprint), 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a New Preface
• Publisher: Harvard University Press (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674929772
• ISBN 13: 9780674929777
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.

About the Author

Charles S. Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has written a number of award-winning books, including Recasting Bourgeois Europe, The Unmasterable Past, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany, and Once Within Borders.