Description
Book SynopsisChronicles the Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. This book compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War-II in the shadows of fascism, surrender and American occupation. It shows that the focus on the nation can be understood only within a transnational context.
Trade Review"The Quest for the Lost Nation should be celebrated as the first book of its kind." -- Franziska Seraphim Monumenta Nipponica "An important examination of the context and content of historical scholarship in postwar Germany and Japan." Central European History
Table of ContentsContents 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
