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Author_Sebastian Conrad
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europe
fascism
german scholars
germany
global politics
historical
historical perspective
historiography
japan
japanese scholars
lost nation
modern history
national past
nonfiction
overcoming dark past
overcoming defeat
postwar germany
postwar japan
reclamation
reconstruction
revised history
revisionist history
social history
surrender
transnational context
world war ii
world wars
wwii
Product details
- ISBN 9780520259447
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
