Stefan Berger 
The Search for Normality [PDF ebook] 
National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800

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Foreword: ‘The Search For Normality’ Six Years Later: History Writing and National Identity in Germany at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Chapter 1. Historiography and Nation-Building: Some Preliminary Remarks

PART I: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN GERMANY 1800-1989

Chapter 2. The National Tradition in German Historiography, 1800-1960
Chapter 3. The Impact of Fritz Fischer
Chapter 4. Decades of Postnationalism? German Historiography from the 1960s to the 1980s

PART II: THE SEARCH FOR NORMALITY AFTER 1990

Chapter 5. Imperial Germany and the Sonderweg Revisited
Chapter 6. Germany’s Darkest Years Revisited
Chapter 7. ‘The Second German Dictatorship’
Chapter 8. The Old Federal Republic as the New Sonderweg
Chapter 9. The National Revival in German Historiography
Chapter 10. Reactions of British and American Historians to Changes in German Historiography after Reunification
Chapter 11. Conclusion

Biographical Appendix
Select Bibliography
Index

Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester, where he is also Director of the Jean-Monnet-Centre of Excellence. Between 2003 and 2008 he directed the European Science Foundation Programme on ‘Representations of the Past. The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST) He has published widely in the areas of historiography, national identity and labour history.