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The search for normality

Name: The search for normality
Author: Stefan Berger
ISBN: 9781571818638

by Stefan Berger

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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 1990 and analyzes the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation state. For anyone interested in the development of the national master narrative in more recent German historiography, this book will provide an essential guide through the multitude of historical debates surrounding the nation state.

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Reunification, Berger (University of Wales, Cardiff) 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. As a result, so the author fears, the contested definition of national identity might strengthen the predominance of the national perspective in historical research. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.