TY - BOOK AU - Confino,Alon TI - The nation as a local metaphor: W�urttemberg, imperial Germany, and national memory, 1871-1918 SN - 0807860840 AV - DD801.W765 C66 1997eb U1 - 320.54/0943/47 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Nationalism KW - Germany KW - W�urttemberg KW - National characteristics, German KW - Collective memory KW - Nationalisme KW - Allemagne KW - Wurtemberg KW - Allemands KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Ideologies KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Nationale identiteit KW - gtt KW - Nationalbewusstsein KW - gnd KW - hilcc KW - Regions & Countries - Europe KW - History & Archaeology KW - W�urttemberg (Germany) KW - 1871-1918 KW - Wurtemberg (Allemagne) KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index; Thinking about German nationhood, 1871-1918 -- pt. 1. Germany and Wurttemberg: an uncomfortable coexistence in Sedan Day -- The nation in the locality -- Sedan Day: a memory for all the Germans? -- An unfulfilled national community -- pt. 2. Germany and Wurttemberg: a nation of heimats -- A system of knowledge and sensibilities -- A national lexicon -- The nation in the mind -- Afterword: Heimat, Germany, and Europe; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the work of political unification had been completed, but Germany remained a patchwork of regions with different histories and traditions. Germans had to construct a national memory to reconcile the peculiarities of the region and the totality of the nation. This identity project, examined by Confino as it evolved in the southwestern state of Wurttemberg, oscillated between failure and success. The national holiday of Sedan Day failed in the 1870s and 1880s to symbolically commingle localness and nationhood. Later, the idea of the Heimat, or homeland, did prove capable of representing interchangeably the locality, the region, and the nation in a distinct national narrative and in visual images. The German nationhood project was successful, argues Confino, because Germans made the nation into an everyday, local experience through a variety of cultural forms, including museums, school textbooks, popular poems, travel guides, posters, and postcards. But it was not unique. Confino situates German nationhood within the larger context of modernity, and in doing so he raises broader questions about how people in the modern world use the past in the construction of identity UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41043 ER -