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Germany - Memories of a Nation (Paperback)
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Germany - Memories of a Nation (Paperback)
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List price R515
Loot Price R422
Discovery Miles 4 220
You Save R93 (18%)
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From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100
Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other For the past 140
years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe.
Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much
do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now
understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that uniquely for any
European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's
history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and
history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly
floated. Koenigsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher,
Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose
cathedral Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer,
discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history,
now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred
years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many
separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any
comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves
before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty
years. 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.
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