Essays on German History and Historians

Print on Demand. Lieferbar innerhalb von 7 bis 10 Tagen

This volume contains essays that examine two aspects of the "German question": first, the historical roots and enduring significance of National Socialism that, eight decades after its collapse, still casts a shadow across Germany's political and moral landscape; second, the problem of German national identity that had apparently been resolved by the formation of the Second Empire in 1871 but reappeared during the era of the Cold War. In addition to these essays on the German question, there are biographies of German historians and American historians of Germany whose lives and work illustrate the interplay of past and present that shapes our historical consciousness.

James J. Sheehan is Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of six books on German and European history; his most recent work, "Making a Modern Political Order: The Problem of the Nation State, " will appear in 2023. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Orden pour le Mérite. In 2005, he was president of the American Historical Association.