Germany and 'The West'(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Germany and 'The West'(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785335049 (ISBN 10) and 9781785335044 (ISBN 13).

"The West" is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, "the West" became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as "Russia" and "the East," and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of "the West" sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.