The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: July 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780803215627
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - Germany; Modern - 19th Century; History / Modern / 19th Century; History : Europe - Germany; Collective memory; Germany; Historiography; National characteristics, German; Social aspects; Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Description: This groundbreaking study of modern Germany's morbid fascination with the war explores the ideological uses of history writing, commemoration, and collective remembrance to show how the passionate argument over the "meaning" of the Thirty Years' War shaped the Germans' conception of their nation.