TY - BOOK ID - 135972424 TI - The quest for the lost nation PY - 2010 SN - 1282697706 9786612697708 0520945816 9781282697706 9780520945814 9780520259447 0520259440 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Historiography KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Cold War KW - History KW - Influence. KW - Social aspects KW - Japan KW - Germany KW - Historiography. KW - america. KW - american occupation. KW - asia. KW - cold war. KW - defeat. KW - engaging. KW - europe. KW - fascism. KW - german scholars. KW - germany. KW - global politics. KW - historical perspective. KW - historical. KW - historiography. KW - japan. KW - japanese scholars. KW - lost nation. KW - modern history. KW - national past. KW - nonfiction. KW - overcoming dark past. KW - overcoming defeat. KW - postwar germany. KW - postwar japan. KW - reclamation. KW - reconstruction. KW - revised history. KW - revisionist history. KW - social history. KW - surrender. KW - transnational context. KW - world war ii. KW - world wars. KW - wwii. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135972424 AB - Highly praised when published in Germany, The Quest for the Lost Nation is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not abandon national perspectives during reconstruction. Quite the opposite-the nation remained hidden at the center of texts as scholars tried to make sense of the past and searched for fragments of the nation they had lost. By situating both countries in the Cold War, Conrad shows that the focus on the nation can be understood only within a transnational context. ER -