'Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place is an outstanding edited collection that will have to be read by anyone with a serious interest in Imperial Germany ... This is truly a fabulous and path-breaking book that makes an invaluable contribution to the study of German history.' -- Jan Palmowski, University of Warwick 'A fresh and evocative study of the interplay between landscapes and localities in the shaping of modern German culture, politics, ideology, and identity.' -- Michael B. Gross, East Carolina University, Central European History
David Blackbourn is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University.
James Retallack is a University Professor in
the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
‘The contribution this volume makes to the field of cultural
studies goes well beyond its German scope. Its greatest
contribution – the whole being larger than the sum of the parts –
lies in its testing and stretching of theories of place and
identity. In the end, Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of
Place exposes some of the very assumptions that have gone into the
notion of hybridity itself.’
- Peter Blickle (German Quarterly) ‘[Blackbourn and Retallack]
address the important question of how these various possible forms
of collective identification could be combined in the minds of
individuals ... [By focusing] the lens on the subnational level to
trace ambiguous feelings of belonging over time ... the volume
reminds us that questions of German identities became more, not
less, complicated with the foundation of the Empire.’
- Christian Müller (The Historical Journal: vol 53:03:10)
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