A return to national history? The master narrative and beyond -- The collapse of the counternarrative: coping with the remains of socialism -- Modernization, German exceptionalism, and post-modernity: transcending the critical history of society -- War, genocide, extermination: the war against the Jews in an era of world wars -- The totalitarian temptation: ordinary Germans, dictatorship, and democracy -- From empire to Europe: the taming of German power -- Unsettling German society: mobility and migration -- A struggle for unity: redefining national identities -- Defining womanhood: the politics of the private -- In pursuit of happiness: consumption, mass culture, and consumerism -- Survival in catastrophe: mending broken memories -- The century as history: between cataclysm and civility.
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