German and Austrian-German Historical Thought in the Modern Era

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German and Austrian-German Historical Thought in the Modern Era is written by Mark E. Blum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1498595235 (ISBN 10) and 9781498595230 (ISBN 13).

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.