By Alon Confino
All countries make themselves up as they pass alongside, yet now not all make themselves up within the related method. during this learn, Alon Confino explores how Germans grew to become nationwide and argues that they imagined the state as an extension in their neighborhood position. In 1871, the paintings of political unification were accomplished, yet Germany remained a patchwork of areas with varied histories and traditions. Germans needed to build a countrywide reminiscence to reconcile the peculiarities of the area and the totality of the state. This identification undertaking, tested through Confino because it developed within the southwestern kingdom of WArttemberg, oscillated among failure and luck. The nationwide vacation of Sedan Day failed within the 1870s and Eighteen Eighties to symbolically commingle localness and nationhood. Later, the belief of the Heimat, or native land, did turn out able to representing interchangeably the locality, the zone, and the state in a unique nationwide narrative and in visible photographs. The German nationhood undertaking used to be winning, argues Confino, simply because Germans made the state into a daily, neighborhood adventure via quite a few cultural kinds, together with museums, college textbooks, renowned poems, trip publications, posters, and postcards. however it used to be now not designated. Confino situates German nationhood in the higher context of modernity, and in doing so he increases broader questions about how humans within the glossy global use the previous within the building of identity.
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54'0943'47dc21 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Page v Per Francesca Page vii CONTENTS Preface xi One. Thinking about German Nationhood, 18711918 3 Thinking the Nation 3 Thinking Germany 5 Collective Memory 8 German National Memory, 1871 13 Württemberg, 1871 15 Part One Germany and Württemberg: An Uncomfortable Coexistence in Sedan Day Two. The Nation in the Locality 27 The Abdication of the State 30 Württemberg: Who Celebrated the Holiday, Where, and What Did It Mean? 34 The Celebration: Bequeathing Local and National Memories 40 The Pedagogical Holiday: National Wine in Local Bottles 46 Three.
Page 5 Thinking Germany I should like to consider this question by looking first at interpretations of the construction of national belonging in Germany. My aim here is neither to review the historiography of German nationalism nor to discuss the origins and disastrous consequences of the German national idea. Rather, I should like to discuss the implicit and explicit assumptions about the making of German national belonging advanced by three leading interpretations of modern German history: the modernization approach; its particular German offshoot, the Sonderweg interpretation; and post-Sonderweg historiography.
The nation as a local metaphor: Württemberg, imperial Germany, and national memory, 18711918 / by Alon Confino. Includes bibliographical references and index. paper). National characteristics, German. Title. 54'0943'47dc21 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Page v Per Francesca Page vii CONTENTS Preface xi One. Thinking about German Nationhood, 18711918 3 Thinking the Nation 3 Thinking Germany 5 Collective Memory 8 German National Memory, 1871 13 Württemberg, 1871 15 Part One Germany and Württemberg: An Uncomfortable Coexistence in Sedan Day Two.