Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany - Paperback

by Geoff Eley (Editor), Jan Palmowski (Editor)

This book provides a new understanding of German twentieth-century history by using the lens of citizenship to explore issues of nationality, belonging, and constructions of German nationhood.

Author Biography

Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, Professor of History and Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. His books include Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980; 1991), Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (2002), and A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005). Jan Palmowski is Senior Lecturer at King's College, London. He is the author of Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866-1914 (1999), and the Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary World History (1997; 2003).