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Germany and 'The West' - The History of a Modern Concept (Hardcover)
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Germany and 'The West' - The History of a Modern Concept (Hardcover)
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"The West" is a central idea in German public discourse, yet
historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the
concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that
the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth
century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the
nineteenth century, "the West" became associated with notions of
progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the
future through the opposition to antonyms such as "Russia" and "the
East," and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities.
Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational
circulations of the idea of "the West" sheds new light on German
intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
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