CONTENTS

    Preface ix

1. Living in History: An Autobiographical Introduction 1

     Part I: In Search of a Subject

2. What is German History? Reflections on the Role of the Nation in German History and Historiography 19

3. The Problem of the Nation in German History 51

4. National History and National Identity in the New Germany 75

5. Paradigm Lost? The Sonderweg Revisited 92

      Part II: German Historians, Historians of Germany

6. Three Generations of German Gelehrtenpolitik 109

7. The Primacy of Domestic Politics: Eckart Kehr’s Essays on Modern German History 117

8. Mack Walker’s German Home Towns 129

9. Carl Schorske at Berkeley 135

10. Saul Friedländer 139

11. Gordon A. Craig 142

12. Werner Thomas Angress 149

13. Hans-Ulrich Wehler 153

14. Gerhard A. Ritter 160

15. Fritz Stern 165

     Conclusion

16. The Future of the German Past 171

    Index 181