Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS xii
5. Foreword ‘The Search For Normality’ Six Years Later: History Writing and National Identity in Germany at the Beginning of the 21st Century xiii
6. Chapter 1 Historiography and Nation-Building: Some Preliminary Remarks 1
7. Part I National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany 1800-1989
8. Chapter 2 The National Tradition in German Historiography, 1800-1960 19
9. Chapter 3 The Impact of Fritz Fischer 56
10. Chapter 4 Decades of Postnationalism? German Historiography from the 1960s to the 1980s 77
11. Part II The Search for Normality after 1990
12. Chapter 5 Imperial Germany and the Sonderweg Revisited 109
13. Chapter 6 Germany’s Darkest Years Revisited 124
14. Chapter 7 ‘The Second German Dictatorship’ 149
15. Chapter 8 The Old Federal Republic as the New Sonderweg 176
16. Chapter 9 The National Revival in German Historiography 198
17. Chapter 10 Reactions of British and American Historians to Changes in German Historiography after Reunification 230
18. Chapter 11 Conclusion 251
19. Biographical Appendix 259
20. Select Bibliography 276
21. Index 298