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The German Myth of the East
1800 to the Present
Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
306 pages
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5 maps, 10 black and white hafltones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954631-2
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Hardback
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27 August 2009
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- Tells the story of German fascination with Eastern Europe from Napoleonic times, through Nazi dreams of Lebensraum in the Second World War, to the expansion of the European Union in the 21st century
- Shows how the idea of Eastern Europe has conjured up a potent mix of fascination, promise, and fear amongst the Germans over the last two hundred years
- Looks at the broad sweep of German attitudes to the East, from writers, artists, philosophers, political leaders, and generals to popular attitudes and culture, including the violent racial utopia of Nazi fantasies
Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards.
Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined (often in very different ways) a special German mission in the East, forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American
myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to our own times, The German Myth of the East reveals that this crucial international relationship has in fact been integral to how Germans have defined (and repeatedly redefined) themselves and their own national identity. In particular, what was ultimately at stake for Germans was their own uncertain position in Europe, between East and West. Paradoxically, the East came to be viewed as both an attractive land of unlimited potential for the future and as a place undeveloped, dangerous, wild, dirty, and uncultured.
Running the gamut from the messages of international understanding announced by generations of German scholars and sympathetic writers, to the
violent racial utopia envisaged by the Nazis, German imaginings of the East represent a crucial, yet unfamiliar, part of modern European history, and one that remains fundamentally important today in the context of an expanded European Union.Readership: All those interested in the history of modern Germany and Eastern Europe, and of European international history from the 18th century to the present.
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Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee
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"A captivating read and may be recommended as an overview to both students and researchers of east European and German history." - Jan C. Behrends, Slavic Review "[This] new and important book...makes a significant contribution to the history of the German national idea." - Jan Vermeiren, European History Quarterly.
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1: Introduction
2: Older Legacies Before 1800
3: Influences of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, 1800-1830
4: Genesis and Creation, 1830-1871
5: Age of Empire, 1871-1914
6: The First World War and Aftermath
7: Nazi Visions of the East
8: Nightmare of the Advancing East, 1943-1955
9: Cold War
10: After the Wall Came Down
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