by Neil Macgregor

ISBN: 9780241008331

Published: 2014-11

Neil MacGregor's unique and bestselling view into Germany's history and collective imagination, now available as a compact hardcover. For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Beginning with the fifteenth-century invention of modern printing by Gutenberg, MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places which show us something of this collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it. * Germany is an enduring point of interest for British audiences, but we hear about little beyond the War and the Wall. This book gives a dramatically different...