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It’s common to speak of historical Germany like it began in 1871 or is where German speaking people exist or ruled. Neither of these are adequate. So this episode is about what that term has meant through time. Also, this is part of Operation Deutschland, a collaboration dedicated to German history, so be sure to check that out. And what a perfect way to go on that journey as to know what that label contains. Yet this is contentious, because people like to impose national borders backwards, including ones as regularly fought over as these. Bounding Germany is deep at the core of so much conflict, from empires, nations, and soviets.
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Bibliography
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010). https://amzn.to/33BTIMT

Mary Fulbrook, A Concise History of Germany, 3rd ed. (UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Caspar Hirschi, The Origins of Nationalism: An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). https://amzn.to/3huOQQP

Eds. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983). https://amzn.to/2uTH7Fl
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