The Nation as a Local Metaphor
Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918
By Alon Confino
296 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 3 color and 30 b&w illus., 1 map, 5 tables, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4665-0
Published: October 1997 -
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6084-7
Published: November 2000
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Awards & distinctions
1998 Charles Smith Award, Southern Historical Association
About the Author
Alon Confino is assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia.
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Reviews
“[An] excellent study. . . . Such a study requires innovative thinking as well as recourse to and creative use of unusual sources so as to get at material that will reconstruct a mentality of a given era. And so Confino did all these things, and he did them well. . . . Confino’s study is not merely history. It is more than history. It is a sort of political sociology that confirms the positive contributions that still can be made by the best in the academy.”--European Legacy
“[A] stimulating study. . . . Gives new insight into the culture of imperial Germany as well as the wider interpretation of European nationalism.”--American Historical Review
"Offers an important and well-researched analysis."--German Quarterly
“Well-written, lavishly illustrated, and meticulously documented.”--Choice
“Anyone interested in nationalism must read this book. . . . A skillful guide through the thicket of nationalist practices.”--Virginia Quarterly Review
"An important contribution to the scholarship on German nationalism. It is a highly original and innovative analysis of the institutional links that allowed for the attachment to the Heimat to merge with the enthusiastic adhesion to the nation."--Saul Friedlander, University of California, Los Angeles