Description
This is an important and thought-provoking book, full of insights and critical questions. Its originality will be recognized immediately, and its suggestions for future research will inspire and animate debate. Immensely valuable, it is full of promise for the way we think about the German past over the next decade. -- Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin, Madison This is an extremely important book. The authors move with tremendous authority over two hundred years and use the caesura of 1989 and the experience of the East German dictatorship as well as the racial civil war of the Nazi period to insist on new ways of looking and writing. Their ability to hold the two lines of inquiry together--the disruptions of history and the continually disrupted writing of history--is a masterpiece of conceptual control. Bold and provocative, Shattered Past will stand as a landmark in the field. -- Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
About the Author
Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany. He is the author of "Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany" (Princeton), "The Unfree Professions", and "The Rush to German Unity". Michael Geyer is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Well known for his research in military history and in theoretical and methodological problems in European and world history, he is a co-editor of "Resistance Against the Third Reich, 1933-1990". He has published widely on war and violence, twentieth-century German history, as well as the history of globalization and is, most recently, the editor of "The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany".
Reviews
"An excellent introduction to newly emerging views on the study of contemporary German history."--Cecil Trice, History: Reviews of New Books "A compelling, challenging analysis."--Choice "Shattered Past is the most important book in German history to appear in recent years... [It] will surely provoke discussion and debate for many years to come."--Eric D. Weitz, Slavic Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780691059365
Author Konrad H. Jarausch
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 539g