Germany Memories Of A Nation by Neil MacGregor

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 now understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly floated. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France.

Publisher:	Allen Lane
Year:	2014
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780241008331
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ; Heavy. Slight wear to DJ on edges.

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SKU: 1600871
Location: History