Table of Contents
List of Maps ix
Introduction xi
Part 1 The Nation Before Nationalism 1
1 Seeing Germany for the First Time (c. 1500) 3
2 "Germany … As If in a Mirror" (c. 1500-1580) 31
3 The Tears of Stoics (c. 1580-1700) 58
Part II The Copernican Turn 83
4 Partition and Patriotism (c. 1700-1770) 91
5 The Surface and the Interior (c. 1770-1790) 119
6 De l'Allemagne (c. 1790-1815) 150
Part III The Age of Nationalism 191
7 Developing Nation (c. 1815-1850) 199
8 Nation Shapes (c. 1850-1870) 234
9 Objective Nation (c. 1870-1914) 261
Part IV The Nationalist Age 291
10 Sacrifice For (c. 1914-1933) 308
11 Sacrifice Of (c. 1935-1941) 337
12 Death Spaces (c. 1941-1945) 367
Part V After Nationalism 407
13 A Living Concept of Fatherland (c. 1945-1950) 413
14 The Presence of Compassion (c. 1950-2000) 426
Epilogue: The Republic of the Germans at the Beginning of the Twenty-Second Century 461
Acknowledgments 475
Notes 479
Illustration Credits 561
Index 563