{"product_id":"shattered-past-9780691059365","title":"Shattered Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the staggering gap between the country's role in the terrors of war and its subsequent success as a democracy. Comprising original essays, this book begins by reexamining the nationalist, socialist, and liberal master narratives that have dominated the presentation of German history but are losing their hold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent introduction to newly emerging views on the study of contemporary German history.\"--Cecil Trice, History: Reviews of New Books \"A compelling, challenging analysis.\"--Choice \"Shattered Past is the most important book in German history to appear in recent years... [It] will surely provoke discussion and debate for many years to come.\"--Eric D. Weitz, Slavic Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ii  INTORDUCTION: Twentieth-Century Germany: Rethinking a Shattered Past 1  PART I: THE ECLIPSE OF THE MASTER NARRATIVES  1. A Return to National History? The Master Narrative and Beyond 37  2. The Collapse of the Counternarrative: Coping with the Remains of Socialism 61  3. Modernization, German Exceptionalism, and Post-Modernity: Transcending the Critical History of Society 85  PART II: RECONSTITUTING GERMAN HISTORIES  4. War, Genocide, Extermination: The War against the Jews in an Era of World Wars 111  5. The Totalitarian Temptation: Ordinary Germans, Dictatorship, and Democracy 149  6. From Empire to Europe: The Taming of German Power 173  7. Unsettling German Society: Mobility and Migration 197  8. A Struggle for Unity: Redefining National Identities 221  9. Defining Womanhood: The Politics of the Private 245  10. In Pursuit of Happiness: Consumption, Mass Culture, and Consumerism 269  PART III: LOOKING BACK AT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY  11. Survival in Catastrophe: Mending Broken Memories 317  12. The Century as History: Between Cataclysm and Civility 342  Index 371","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403706179927,"sku":"9780691059365","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691059365.jpg?v=1730484315","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shattered-past-9780691059365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}