{"product_id":"imagining-a-greater-germany-9781501704444","title":"Imagining a Greater Germany","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eImagining a Greater Germany\u003c\/i\u003e, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term Anschluss has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast a long shadow not only over the idea of the union of German-speaking lands but also over German nationalism in general. Due to the horrors unleashed by the Third Reich, German nationalism has seemed virulently exclusionary, and Anschluss inherently antidemocratic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, as Hochman makes clear, nationalism and the desire to redraw Germany's boundaries were not solely the prerogatives of the political right. Focusing on the supporters of the embattled Weimar and First Austrian Republics, she argues that support for an Anschluss and belief in the \u003ci\u003egroßdeutsch\u003c\/i\u003e idea (the historical notion that Germany should include Austria) were central to republicans' persistent attempts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin Hochman's deeply researched and trenchantly argued book revises our understanding of interwar German nationalism, providing a compelling reinterpretation of the histories of the Weimar Republic and the Austrian First Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e * Austrian Environmental History *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409320878423,"sku":"9781501704444","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501704444.jpg?v=1730506410","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-a-greater-germany-9781501704444","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}