Reluctant Meister

How Germany's Past is Shaping Its European Future
Expanded
ISBN: 978-1-910376-57-7
Verlag: Haus Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 123 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Haus Publishing

Germany is a country with a deep and complex history. Arguably there is no greater culture and no country has contributed more to the development of human ideas and creativity. Nor has any country sunk deeper into the abyss or experienced such redemption and renewal. It is this that instils the German story with a profound and universal significance.

A generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall much of Europe remains uncertain about its identity and direction. As Britain prepares to leave the European Union these uncertainties are greater than ever. The euro and migrant crisis have seen Germany reluctantly assume a prominent role among the states of the European Union, but outright leadership remains deeply problematic for a country haunted by its past.

What part will Germany – a land where over a long history of people have adopted layered identities – play in this new Europe? Whatever the answer, the implications for Britain and the future of the wider European project will be profound.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface // ix

Introduction // xiii

1. Springtime in Berlin // 1

2. Tears for my Country // 6

3. That Cursed Duty // 48

4. The Awakening of Germania // 74

5. Dem Deutschen Volke // 105

6. Memories, Dreams and Nightmares // 136

7. The Pact with the Devil // 165

8. Remnants, Renewal, Redemption, Reconciliation // 191

9. Confronting the Ghosts of Germany Past // 224

10. The Reluctant Leader of the New Europe // 265

11. Transfiguration and Apotheosis? // 299

Notes // 303

Selected Bibliography // 307

Index // 315

Über Autor(innen)

STEPHEN GREEN was for most of his career an international banker. From 2011 to 2013 he was Minister for Trade and Investment in the British Government. He now has a range of international trade, on financial and professional services and on child poverty and development programmes. He chairs the Natural History Museum of London and is an ordained priest in the Church of England. Stephen is the author of Good Value: Money, Morality and on an Uncertain World, The European Identity: Historical and Cultural Realities we cannot Deny, Brexit and the British: Who are we now? and co-authored Unwritten Rule: How to Fix the British Constitution.