{"product_id":"popularizing-the-nation-kirsten-belgum-9780803212831","title":"Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in \"die Gartenlaube,\" 1853-1900","description":"\u003ci\u003ePopularizing the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e examines the intersection of national identity and the popular press in nineteenth-century Germany. Central to Kirsten Belgum's study is the Gartenlaube, a magazine that first appeared in 1853 and became, by the 1870s, the most widely read magazine in Germany. In the midst of the magazine's varied fare was a host of writings that touched on the themes of the German nation and national identity. \u003cp\u003eIn countless articles on culture, politics, landscape, industry, history, and other topics, the Gartenlaube played an influential role in nineteenth-century Germany's larger effort to forge a national identity for itself. In fact, Belgum argues that the search for, and development of, national identity in Germany was inextricably linked to the writings of the Gartenlaube and other popular magazines. Such publications served both as a public repository of mythic memory for the nation and as a source of new national images for a self-consciously modern Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its careful attention to the issue of national identity formation during a crucial period of German history, \u003ci\u003ePopularizing the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to modern German intellectual, political, and publishing history. But the book has a larger significance as well. Belgum's examination of the Gartenlaube's often contradictory images of the German nation--tradition-bound and modernizing, liberal and fervently nationalistic, enlightened and sentimental--provides crucial insights into the complex problems and processes of constructing national identity. \u003ci\u003ePopularizing the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory account of modern nationalism and its close relationship to mainstream journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kirsten Belgum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803212836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803212831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 5.60w x 1.01d","brand":"Kirsten Belgum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120241602815,"sku":"9780803212831","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d84e0971-f99e-4f13-98ae-5535b18a51f4.jpg?v=1687413264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/popularizing-the-nation-kirsten-belgum-9780803212831","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}