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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780505203321

Titolo

Localism, landscape, and the ambiguities of place : German-speaking central Europe, 1860-1930 / / edited by David Blackbourn and James Retallack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4426-2439-6

1-4426-8452-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

German and European Studies

Classificazione

NK 5000

Disciplina

943.07

Soggetti

Landscapes - Symbolic aspects - Germany

History

Electronic books.

Germany 19th century

Germany Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; PART ONE: PLACING CULTURES, MOVING CULTURES; 1. Music in Place: Perspectives on Art Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany; 2. Heimat Art, Modernism, Modernity; 3/ 'Native Son': Julian Hawthorne's Saxon Studies; PART TWO: POLITICAL CULTURES; 4. From Electoral Campaigning to the Politics of Togetherness: Localism and Democracy; 5. The Landscapes of Liberalism: Particularism and Progressive Politics in Two Borderland Regions; PART THREE: LANDSCAPES

6. 'The Garden of our Hearts': Landscape, Nature, and Local Identity in the German East; 7. The Nature of Home: Landscape Preservation and Local Identities; PART FOUR: LANGUAGE BORDERS; 8. Constructing a Modern German Landscape: Tourism, Nature, and Industry in Saxony; 9. The Borderland in the Child: National Hermaphrodism and Pedagogical Activism in the Bohemian Lands; 10. Land of Sun and Vineyards: Settlers, Tourists, and the National Imagination on the



Southern Language Frontier; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

These essays do not assume the primacy of national allegiance. Instead, by using the 'sense of place' as a prism to look at German identity in new ways, they examine a sense of 'Germanness' that was neither self-evident nor unchanging.