The Unmasterable Past

History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface

Charles S. Maier

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674929777

Publication Date: 03/30/1998

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256 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Preface, 1997
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction
The Stakes of the Controversy
Habermas among the Historians
A Holocaust like the Others? Problems of Comparative History
German History as Case History
A Usable Past? Museums, Memory, and Identity
Epilogue: Whose Holocaust? Whose History?
Notes
Index

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