Becoming Historical (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521836487)

This book focuses on a remarkable group of nineteenth century Berlin artists and thinkers to examine the ways in which selfhood and cultural solidarity came to be understood and experienced as components of historical identity. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Felix Mendelssohn, Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Karl von Savigny and Leopold von Ranke became associated in 1840 with the cultural agenda of a regime that hoped to forge solidarity among its subjects by encouraging identification with a constructed public memory.

Author: John Edward Toews
ISBN-10: 0521836484
ISBN-13: 9780521836487
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2004
Pages: 492
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.46w x 1.38d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1464