The quest for the lost nation : writing history in Germany and Japan in the American century
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Bibliographic Information
The quest for the lost nation : writing history in Germany and Japan in the American century
(The California world history library, 12)
University of California Press, c2010
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Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Nation : Geschichtsschreibung in Westdeutschland und Japan, 1945-1960
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Revised version of a study that was first published in German in 1999"--Acknowledgments, p. 377
Bibliography: p. 303-376
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Highly praised when published in Germany, "The Quest for the Lost Nation" is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War-II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not abandon national perspectives during reconstruction. Quite the opposite - the nation remained hidden at the center of texts as scholars tried to make sense of the past and searched for fragments of the nation they had lost. By situating both countries in the Cold War, Conrad shows that the focus on the nation can be understood only within a transnational context.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction 1. Mapping Postwar Historiography in Germany and Japan 2. The Origin of the Nation: Bismarck, Meiji Ishin, and the Subject of History 3. The Nation as Victim: Writing the History of National Socialism and Japanese Fascism 4. The Invention of Contemporary History 5. The Temporalization of Space: Germany and Japan between East and West 6. History and Memory: Germany and Japan, 1945--2 Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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