Title: The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar)
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.
Subjects: Thirty years' war, 1618-1648, National characteristics, german, Germany, history, History, Historiography, Collective memory, German National characteristics, Social aspects