Germany as a culture of remembrance : promises and limits of writing history /
Confino, Alon.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-300) and index.
Prologue: the historian's representations -- The local life of nationhood: Germany as Heimat, 1871-1990 -- The nation as a local metaphor: Heimat, national memory, and the German empire, 1871-1918 -- A century of local nationhood: Edgar Reitz's Heimat, memory, and understandings of the past, 1871-1990 -- Heimat and memories of war in West Germany, 1945-1960 -- Heimat, East German imagination, and an excess of reality -- A national lexicon for all seasons -- Memory as historical narrative and method -- Freud, Moses, and national memory -- Collective memory and cultural history: problems of method -- Telling about Germany: narratives of memory and culture -- Dissonance, normality, and the historical method: why did some Germans think of tourism after May 8, 1945? -- Traveling as a culture of remembrance: traces of National Socialism in West Germany, 1945-1960.
Collective memory
National characteristics, German.