Beschreibung:
H. Glenn Penny is Professor of History and the Henry J. Bruman Endowed Chair in German History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"A polycentric German history that pointedly decenters the nation-state. It includes communities of Germans far beyond its borders, and it emphasizes that for generations many who considered themselves to be German also felt themselves to be other things. Taking up a decidedly counter-hegemonic position, Glenn calls for a greater integration of mobilities, migration flows, and pluralities of belonging into our narratives of Germans' histories. He also argues for greater attention to the transcultural spaces many Germans helped to fashion and the various networks that tied them together."--
1. Worldly provincials; 2. Cultural nation; 3. Emigrant nation; 4. Binding Germany history; 5. Recasting the emigrant nation; 6. Vectors of indoctrination; 7. Persistent postwar interconnections.