The Thirty Years` War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century Cramer

The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth CenturyAuthor(s): Kevin Cramer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803215627, 978-0803215627\nSynopsis\nThe nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public's obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its historythe Thirty Years' Warresurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, century-long debate over the origins and aftermath of the war. The core of this bitter argument was a clash between Protestant and Catholic historians over the cultural criteria determining authentic German identity and the territorial and political form of the future German [url] groundbreaking study of modern Germany's morbid fascination with the war explores the ideological uses of history writing, commemoration, and collective remembrance to.