| The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century Volume 12 Contributor(s): Conrad, Sebastian (Author), Nothnagle, Alan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0520259440 ISBN-13: 9780520259447 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | Europe - Germany - History | Asia - Japan |
| Dewey: 943.086 |
| LCCN: 2010013362 |
| Series: California World History Library |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.50 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |