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ISBN: 9780520259447

Published: July 15, 2010

Publisher: University of California Press

Trim: 6.00 x 9.00 Inches

Pages: 400

An examination copy of this textbook is available to qualified faculty at no charge.

The Quest for the Lost Nation

Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century

Sebastian Conrad, Alan Nothnagle

By Sebastian Conrad Translated by Alan Nothnagle

California World History Library

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Hardcover

$85.00 / $107.00 CAN

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About the Book

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.

Author

Sebastian Conrad is Professor of History at the European University Institute in Florence. Conrad is also the author of Globalisation and Nation in Imperial Germany and has edited, together with Dominic Sachsenmaier, Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s.

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