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100	1		_aApplegate, Celia. _966086
245	1	2	_aA Nation of Provincials : _bThe German Idea of Heimat.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2023.
300			_a1 online resource (286 pages)
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520			_aAt the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat--the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to the cause of local preservation. Celia Applegate examines at both the national and regional levels the cultural meaning of Heimat and why it may be pivotal to the troubled and very timely question of German identity. The ideas and activities clustered around Heimat shed new light particularly on problems of modernization. Instead of viewing the Germans as a dangerously anti-modern people, Applegate argues that they used the cultivation of Heimat to ground an abstract nationalism in their attachment to familiar places and to reconcile the modern industrial and urban world with the rural landscapes and customs they admired. Primarily a characteristic of the middle classes, love of Heimat constituted an alternative vision of German unity to the familiar aggressive, militaristic one. The Heimat vision of Germany emphasized cultural diversity and defined German identity by its internal members rather than its external enemies. Applegate asks that we re-examine the continuities of German history from the perspective of the local places that made up Germany, rather than from that of prominent intellectuals or national policymakers. The local patriotism of Heimat activists emerges as an element of German culture that persisted across the great divides of 1918, 1933, and 1945. She also suggests that this attachment to a particular place is a feature of Europeans in general and is deserving of further attention. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
520	8		_athe brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
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655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aApplegate, Celia _tA Nation of Provincials _dBerkeley : University of California Press,c2022 _z9780520372153
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=30771734 _zVolltext
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