The Unmasterable Past(English, Paperback, Maier Charles S.)

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The Unmasterable Past(English, Paperback, Maier Charles S.) is written by Maier Charles S. and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674929772 (ISBN 10) and 9780674929777 (ISBN 13).

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.