Germany and 'The West': The History of a Modern Concept

by Martina Steber (Editor), Martina Steber (Editor), Riccardo Bavaj (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $157.13

  In the nineteenth century the West became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of the West sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.