German and Austrian-German Historical Thought in the Modern Era

German and Austrian-German Historical Thought in the Modern Era
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9781498595230
ISBN-13 : 1498595235
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Book Synopsis German and Austrian-German Historical Thought in the Modern Era by : Mark E. Blum

Download or read book German and Austrian-German Historical Thought in the Modern Era written by Mark E. Blum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every nation develops a narrative structure for thinking about history that is generated by its own historical experience. In this study, the German and Austrian-German “historias”—the way narratives of factual significance are structured as the “story” of events—are shown in their sameness from the late 1600s to the present. This “historia” shapes the emphasis of how meaning is articulated among the historians of a society. The author argues that German and Austrian-German societies would benefit from understanding the constrictions and oversights generated by the narrative style of their traditional historias.


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