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Germany : memories of a nation /

By: MacGregor, Neil, 1946-.
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, 2014Description: xxxix, 598 p. : ill., maps, plates (chiefly coloured) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241008331 (hardback); 9780241008331:; 0241008336 (hardback).Subject(s): Germany -- History | Germany -- Civilization | Germany -- History | Germany -- CivilizationDDC classification: 943
Contents:
Maps -- Introduction : monuments and memories -- Part 1 : where is Germany? [Chapter] 1 : the view from the Gate. [Chapter] 2 : divided heaven. [Chapter] 3 : lost capitals. [Chapter] 4 : floating city. [Chapter] 5 : fragments of power -- Part 2 : imagining Germany. [Chapter] 6 : a language for all Germans. [Chapter] 7 : Snow White vs Napoleon. [Chapter] 8 : one nation under Goethe. [Chapter] 9 : hall of heroes. [Chapter] 10 : one people, many sausages -- Part 3 : the persistent past. [Chapter] 11 : the battle for Charlemagne. [Chapter] 12 : sculpting the spirit. [Chapter] 13 : the Baltic brothers. [Chapter] 14 : iron nation. [Chapter] 15 : two paths from 1848 -- Part 4 : made in Germany. [Chapter] 16 : in the beginning was the printer. [Chapter] 17 : an artist for all Germans. [Chapter] 18 : the white gold of Saxony. [Chapter] 19 : masters of metal. [Chapter] 20 : cradle of the modern -- Part 5 : the descent. [Chapter] 21 : Bismarck the blacksmith. [Chapter] 22 : the suffering witness. [Chapter] 23 : money in crisis. [Chapter] 24 : purging the degenerate, [Chapter] 25 : at the Buchenwald gate -- Part 6 : living with history. [Chapter] 26 : the Germans expelled. [Chapter] 27 : beginning again. [Chapter] 28 : the new German Jews. [Chapter] 29 : Barlach's Angel. [Chapter] 30 : Germany renewed -- Envoi -- Illustrations and photographic credits -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Summary: Neil MacGregor guides us through the complex history, culture and identity of Germany by telling the stories behind 30 objects in his uniquely magical way. Beginning with the 15th-century invention of the Gutenberg press, he ventures beyond the usual sticking point of the Second World War to get to the heart of a nation that has given us Luther and Hitler, the Beetle and Brecht - and remade our world again and again. This is a view of Germany like no other.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Maps -- Introduction : monuments and memories -- Part 1 : where is Germany? [Chapter] 1 : the view from the Gate. [Chapter] 2 : divided heaven. [Chapter] 3 : lost capitals. [Chapter] 4 : floating city. [Chapter] 5 : fragments of power -- Part 2 : imagining Germany. [Chapter] 6 : a language for all Germans. [Chapter] 7 : Snow White vs Napoleon. [Chapter] 8 : one nation under Goethe. [Chapter] 9 : hall of heroes. [Chapter] 10 : one people, many sausages -- Part 3 : the persistent past. [Chapter] 11 : the battle for Charlemagne. [Chapter] 12 : sculpting the spirit. [Chapter] 13 : the Baltic brothers. [Chapter] 14 : iron nation. [Chapter] 15 : two paths from 1848 -- Part 4 : made in Germany. [Chapter] 16 : in the beginning was the printer. [Chapter] 17 : an artist for all Germans. [Chapter] 18 : the white gold of Saxony. [Chapter] 19 : masters of metal. [Chapter] 20 : cradle of the modern -- Part 5 : the descent. [Chapter] 21 : Bismarck the blacksmith. [Chapter] 22 : the suffering witness. [Chapter] 23 : money in crisis. [Chapter] 24 : purging the degenerate, [Chapter] 25 : at the Buchenwald gate -- Part 6 : living with history. [Chapter] 26 : the Germans expelled. [Chapter] 27 : beginning again. [Chapter] 28 : the new German Jews. [Chapter] 29 : Barlach's Angel. [Chapter] 30 : Germany renewed -- Envoi -- Illustrations and photographic credits -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Neil MacGregor guides us through the complex history, culture and identity of Germany by telling the stories behind 30 objects in his uniquely magical way. Beginning with the 15th-century invention of the Gutenberg press, he ventures beyond the usual sticking point of the Second World War to get to the heart of a nation that has given us Luther and Hitler, the Beetle and Brecht - and remade our world again and again. This is a view of Germany like no other.

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