Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history—the fi…

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