Germany
Subtitle: memories of a nation
By: Neil MacGregor
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780241008331
Subjects: History; Civilization
Description: "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 still resonate in the new Germany - porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald - to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-587) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Monuments and memories; title: Part 1: Where is Germany?; title: The view from the Gate; title: Divided heaven; title: Lost capitals; title: Floating city; title: Fragments of power; title: Part 2: Imagining Germany; title: A language for all Germans; title: Snow White vs Napoleon; title: One nation under Goethe; title: Hall of heroes; title: One people, many sausages; title: Part 3: The persistent past; title: The battle for Charlemagne; title: Sculpting the spirit; title: The Baltic brothers; title: Iron nation; title: Two paths from 1848; title: Part 4: Made in Germany; title: In the beginning was the printer; title: An artist for all Germans; title: The white gold of Saxony; title: Masters of metal; title: Cradle of the modern; title: Part 5: The descent; title: Bismarck the blacksmith; title: The suffering witness; title: Money in crisis; title: Purging the degenerate; title: At the Buchenwald gate; title: Part 6: Living with history; title: The Germans expelled; title: Beginning again; title: The new German Jews; title: Barlach's Angel; title: Germany renewed; title: Envoi.