TY - BOOK ID - 640652 TI - Germany : memories of a nation PY - 2014 SN - 9780241008331 0241008336 PB - London Allen Lane DB - UniCat KW - History of civilization KW - History of Germany and Austria KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - Germany KW - History. KW - Civilization. KW - BMBF-Statusseminar UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:640652 AB - "German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. Beginning with the fifteenth-century invention of modern printing by Gutenberg, MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places which still resonate in the new Germany - porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald - to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it."-- ER -