Ebook: The search for normality: national identity and historical consciousness in Germany since 1800

Ch. 1. Historiography and Nation-Building: Some Preliminary Remarks -- pt. I. National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany 1800-1989. Ch. 2. The National Tradition in German Historiography, 1800-1960. Ch. 3. The Impact of Fritz Fischer -- Ch. 4. Decades of Postnationalism? -- German Historiography from the 1960s to the 1980s. pt. II. The Search for Normality after 1990. Ch. 5. Imperial Germany and the Sonderweg Revisited -- Ch. 6. Germany's Darkest Years Revisited -- Ch. 7. 'The Second German Dictatorship'. Ch. 8. The Old Federal Republic as the New Sonderweg -- Ch. 9. The National Revival in German Historiography -- Ch. 10. Reactions of British and American Historians to Changes in German Historiography after Reunification -- Ch. 11. Conclusion.;Review: "The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1989/90 and analyses the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake efforts on the extreme Right to re-establish a nationalist historiography. Even among the liberal-conservative mainstream of German historiography, an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation-state has begun. Nor have the critical historians been unaffected by this. As a result, so the author fears, the contested definition of national identity might strengthen, in his eyes, the unwelcome predominance of the national perspective in historical research."--BOOK JACKET