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The Nineteenth Century as the Century of History The nineteenth century has many names: the century of the bourgeoisie, the century of nations, the century of industrialization, and the century of natural science and technology. 1 However, it might just as well be called the century of history. From the late eighteenth century on, the engagement with the past, and particularly with 'patriotic' history (vaterländischer Geschichte), was an important means of shaping individual and collective identity. After the collapse of the Alte Reich (the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation) in 1803-1806, and following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the German states in their new patchwork arrangement placed an emphasis on history and on the construction of the single state's historical tradition. This served the purpose of securing the old and new population's attachment to the readjusted political system and of constructing a patriotic and national identity. 2 Yet, next to the German states of the first half of the nineteenth century and the newly unified Germany of the Kaiserreich (German Empire) of 1871 onwards, the national movement, newly emerging political movements such as liberalism

Author

Sylvia Paletschek

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN