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• catalog abstract "All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the work of political unification had been completed, but Germany remained a patchwork of regions with different histories and traditions. Germans had to construct a national memory to reconcile the peculiarities of the region and the totality of the nation. This identity project, examined by Confino as it evolved in the southwestern state of Wurttemberg, oscillated between failure and success. The national holiday of Sedan Day failed in the 1870s and 1880s to symbolically commingle localness and nationhood. Later, the idea of the Heimat, or homeland, did prove capable of representing interchangeably the locality, the region, and the nation in a distinct national narrative and in visual images. The German nationhood project was successful, argues Confino, because Germans made the nation into an everyday, local experience through a variety of cultural forms, including museums, school textbooks, popular poems, travel guides, posters, and postcards. But it was not unique. Confino situates German nationhood within the larger context of modernity, and in doing so he raises broader questions about how people in the modern world use the past in the construction of identity.".
• catalog contributor b10433925.
• catalog coverage "Germany Politics and government 1871-1918.".
• catalog coverage "Württemberg (Germany) Politics and government.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "1. Thinking about German Nationhood, 1871-1918 -- pt. 1. Germany and Wurttemberg: An Uncomfortable Coexistence in Sedan Day. 2. The Nation in the Locality. 3. Sedan Day: A Memory for All the Germans? 4. An Unfulfilled National Community -- pt. 2. Germany and Wurttemberg: A Nation of Heimats. 5. A System of Knowledge and Sensibilities. 6. A National Lexicon. 7. The Nation in the Mind. Afterword: Heimat, Germany, and Europe.".
• catalog description "All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the work of political unification had been completed, but Germany remained a patchwork of regions with different histories and traditions. Germans had to construct a national memory to reconcile the peculiarities of the region and the totality of the nation. This identity project, examined by Confino as it evolved in the southwestern state of Wurttemberg, oscillated between failure and success. The national holiday of Sedan Day failed in the 1870s and 1880s to symbolically commingle localness and nationhood. Later, the idea of the Heimat, or homeland, did prove capable of representing interchangeably the locality, the region, and the nation in a distinct national narrative and in visual images. The German nationhood project was successful, argues Confino, because Germans made the nation into an everyday, local experience through a variety of cultural forms, including museums, school textbooks, popular poems, travel guides, posters, and postcards. But it was not unique. Confino situates German nationhood within the larger context of modernity, and in doing so he raises broader questions about how people in the modern world use the past in the construction of identity.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-272) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 280 p. [2] p. of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Nation as a local metaphor.".
• catalog identifier "0807823597 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0807846651 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Nation as a local metaphor.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
• catalog relation "Nation as a local metaphor.".
• catalog spatial "Germany Politics and government 1871-1918.".
• catalog spatial "Germany Württemberg.".
• catalog spatial "Germany.".
• catalog spatial "Württemberg (Germany) Politics and government.".
• catalog subject "320.54/0943/47 21".
• catalog subject "Collective memory Germany.".
• catalog subject "DD801.W765 C66 1997".
• catalog subject "National characteristics, German.".
• catalog subject "Nationalism Germany Württemberg.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Thinking about German Nationhood, 1871-1918 -- pt. 1. Germany and Wurttemberg: An Uncomfortable Coexistence in Sedan Day. 2. The Nation in the Locality. 3. Sedan Day: A Memory for All the Germans? 4. An Unfulfilled National Community -- pt. 2. Germany and Wurttemberg: A Nation of Heimats. 5. A System of Knowledge and Sensibilities. 6. A National Lexicon. 7. The Nation in the Mind. Afterword: Heimat, Germany, and Europe.".
• catalog title "The nation as a local metaphor : Württemberg, imperial Germany, and national memory, 1871-1918 / Alon Confino.".
• catalog type "text".