{"title":"Helmut Walser Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelmut Walser Smith is a distinguished author whose work delves deep into the intricacies of German history. If you have a penchant for understanding the historical forces and conflicts that have shaped modern Europe, you will find Smith’s writings both enlightening and thought-provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of his profound contributions to historical literature is \u003cem\u003eGerman Nationalism and Religious Conflict\u003c\/em\u003e. This book provides a compelling narrative of the tensions between national identity and religious affiliations in Germany, offering a nuanced perspective that challenges conventional understandings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGermany: A Nation in Its Time\u003c\/em\u003e, Smith extends his inquiry into the broader timeline of German history. This title examines the processes and events that forged the modern German nation, showcasing Smith's ability to weave comprehensive narratives that capture both the grandeur and the tumult of Germany's past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese captivating books are categorised under History \u0026amp; Military in our collection, ideal for readers who are eager to explore the complexities of nationalism, conflict, and identity through the lens of an expert historian. With Helmut Walser Smith, prepare to embark on a scholarly journey through time, rooted in meticulous research and profound insights.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"german-nationalism-and-religious-conflict-by-helmut-walser-smith-9780691604459","title":"German Nationalism and Religious Conflict","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In \u003cem\u003eGerman Nationalism and Religious Conflict\u003c\/em\u003e, Helmut Walser Smith offers the first social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues that Protestants and Catholics lived in different worlds, separated by an \"invisible boundary\" of culture, defined as a community of meaning. As these worlds came into contact, they also came into conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith explores the local as well as the national dimensions of this conflict, illuminating for the first time the history of the Protestant League and the dilemmas involved in Catholic integration into a national culture defined primarily by Protestantism. The author places religious conflict within the wider context of nation-building and nationalism. The ongoing conflict, conditioned by a long history of mutual intolerance, was an integral part of the jagged and complex process by which Germany became a modern, secular, increasingly integrated nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConsequently, religious conflict also influenced the construction of German national identity and the expression of German nationalism. Smith contends that in this religiously divided society, German nationalism did not simply smooth over tensions between two religious groups but rather provided them with a new vocabulary for articulating their differences. Nationalism, therefore, served as much to divide as to unite German society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1995, the Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849176240364,"sku":"9780691604459","price":168.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6031733482434.jpg?v=1759025365"},{"product_id":"germany-by-helmut-walser-smith-9781324091547","title":"Germany","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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 first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II—challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than twentieth-century historians have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith's dramatic narrative begins with the earliest glimmers of a nation in the 1500s, when visionary mapmakers and adventuresome travellers struggled to delineate and define this embryonic nation. Contrary to widespread perception, the people who first described Germany were pacific in temperament, and the pernicious ideology of German nationalism would only enter into the nation's history centuries later. Tracing the significant tension between the idea of the nation and the ideology of its nationalism, Smith shows a nation constantly reinventing itself and explains how radical nationalism ultimately turned Germany into a genocidal nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith's aim, then, is nothing less than to redefine our understanding of Germany: Is it essentially a bellicose nation that murdered over six million people? Or a pacific, twenty-first-century model of tolerant democracy? And was it inevitable that the land that produced Goethe and Schiller, Heinrich Heine and Käthe Kollwitz, would also carry out genocide on an unprecedented scale?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining poignant prose with a historian's rigour, Smith recreates the national euphoria that accompanied the beginning of World War I, followed by the existential despair caused by Germany's shattering defeat. This psychic devastation would simultaneously produce both the modernist glories of the Bauhaus and the meteoric rise of the Nazi party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNowhere is Smith's mastery on greater display than in his chapter on the Holocaust, which looks at the killing not only through the tragedies of Western Europe but, significantly, also through the lens of the rural hamlets and ghettos of Poland and Eastern Europe, where more than 80% of all the Jews murdered originated. He thus broadens the extent of culpability well beyond the high echelons of Hitler's circle all the way to the local level. Throughout its pages, \u003cem\u003eGermany\u003c\/em\u003e also examines the indispensable yet overlooked role played by German women throughout the nation's history, highlighting great artists and revolutionaries, and the horrific, rarely acknowledged violence that war wrought on women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichly illustrated, with original maps created by the author, \u003cem\u003eGermany: A Nation in Its Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping account that does nothing less than redefine our understanding of Germany for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000626888940,"sku":"9781324091547","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11599863482659.jpg?v=1763290937"},{"product_id":"germany-a-nation-in-its-time-by-helmut-walser-smith-9780871404664","title":"Germany: A Nation in Its Time","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn epic in the tradition of Jonathan Spence's \u003ci\u003eThe Search for Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e and Jill Lepore's \u003ci\u003eThese Truths\u003c\/i\u003e, Helmut Walser Smith's sterling work promises to redefine our perception of German history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor nearly a century, conventional historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression, its nineteenth-century ascent accompanied by militarism and brought to a murderous apex in the Third Reich. Not so, asserts Smith, who, beginning in 1500, reveals early and even surprisingly pacific conceptions of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmith allows us to see the Nazis' extreme form of nationalism not as the dark culmination point of German history, but rather as an essential episode in Germany's centuries-long history of continually conceiving the nation in radically different ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether chronicling the Thirty Years War, the German Enlightenment of Goethe and Schiller, the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust, or the era of Angela Merkel, Smith has created a new standard for the twenty-first-century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000626921708,"sku":"9780871404664","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6543223482498.jpg?v=1763290941"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/helmut-walser-smith.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}