Germany: Memories of a Nation
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For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves?
Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Ger
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Manufacturer: Knopf
Release date: 29 September 2015
ISBN-10 : 1101875666 | ISBN-13: 9781101875667
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Release date: 29 September 2015
ISBN-10 : 1101875666 | ISBN-13: 9781101875667
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