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SPECIAL LECTURE The German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the Seminar in Modern German History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Privatdozent Dr WILLIBALD STEINMETZ will give a paper on The Thalidomide Affair Five Thousand Children Unsettle West German Ideas of Normality, Authority, and Progress (1957-1972) at the German Historical Institute on Thursday 6 December 2001 at 5.30 p.m. 6
REVIEW ARTICLES ON LOCALNESS AND NATIONHOOD by Alon Confino GEORG KUNZ, Verortete Geschichte: Regionales Geschichtsbewußtsein in den deutschen Historischen Vereinen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 138 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000), 413 pp. ISBN 3 525 35729 X. DM 78.00 JAMES RETALLACK (ed.), Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933, Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), xxi + 392 pp. ISBN 0 472 11104 3. $59.50 German History: The Journal of the German History Society, Vol. 17, No. 4 (1999). ISSN 0266 3554. Special Issue: Saxon Signposts. Guest Editor: James Retallack The historiography of nationalism has been organized in the last two decades or so along a three-tiered explanatory model: from the global—often expressed in terms of modernity—via the national, down to the local. How has the local been treated, as an explanatory device of nationalism, in these three levels? The first level is that of theoretical studies, such as the path-breaking studies of Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson, that attempt to explain nationalism as a global historical phenomenon, as a social and cultural result of modernity. 1 For Gellner, nationalism is a result of industrial social organization; for Anderson, of print capitalism and widespread literacy. As modernity spreads around the globe, it spreads nationalism as well, though how this is exactly done we are never told. For these and other theoretical studies are interested, understandably, in the macro. They mention individual national cases only by way of example and by focusing on official and élite nationalism. As a result, they are unin- 1 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London, 1983; revised and extended ed., 1991). Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, NY, 1983). 7
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