Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.
- ISBN10 0674040449
- ISBN13 9780674040441
- Publish Date 1 July 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 256
- Language English