{"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\/products\/germany-a-nation-in-its-time-by-helmut-walser-smith-9780871404664","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}