{"product_id":"germany-a-nation-in-its-time-9780871404664","title":"Germany A Nation in Its Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrative that challenges our traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Drawing on cartography, literature, travel narratives, and the history of politics, warfare, science, religion, and art, Helmut Walser Smith constructs a magisterial account of the German nation as a history of constant transformation and reinvention. Beautifully written and richly textured, it is essential reading for everyone interested in Germany's past, present, and future.\" -- Sir Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\"Helmut Walser Smith's \u003cem\u003eGermany\u003c\/em\u003e is an encompassing history of German efforts to define their nation in all its stunning contradictions through five centuries — pastoral, productive, exalted, for a time murderous, for longer civic, always complex.\" -- Charles Maier, Harvard University","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528283300183,"sku":"9780871404664","price":28.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780871404664.jpg?v=1731871062","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/germany-a-nation-in-its-time-9780871404664","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}