Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich PDF
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Time and Power The Lawrence Stone Lectures Sponsored by: The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies and Princeton University Press A list of titles in this series appears at the back of the book. Time and Power Visions of HisTory in German PoliTics, from THe THirTy years’ war To THe THird reicH Christopher Clark PrinceTon UniVersiTy Press PrinceTon & oxford Copyright © 2019 by Christopher Clark Published by Princeton University Press 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press.princeton.edu All Rights Reserved LCCN 2018960827 ISBN 978‑0‑691‑18165‑3 British Library Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data is available Editorial: Brigitta van Rheinberg, Amanda Peery, and Eric Crahan Production Editorial: Brigitte Pelner Jacket Design: C. Alvarez‑Gaffin Jacket/Cover Credit: Jacket Images (left to right): 1) Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, 2) Frederick William II of Prussia, 3) Otto von Bismarck, 4) Adolf Hitler Production: Erin Suydam Publicity: James Schneider Copyeditor: Joseph Dahm This book has been composed in Miller Printed on acid‑free paper ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Kate and Justin Clark, siblings for all seasons conTenTs Acknowledgements · ix Introduction 1 cHaPTer 1 The History Machine 19 cHaPTer 2 The Historian King 72 cHaPTer 3 Boatman on the River of Time 118 cHaPTer 4 Time of the Nazis 171 Conclusion and Epilogue 211 Notes · 227 Index · 281 acknowledGemenTs in THeory, the pool of intellectual debt ought to shrink with each new book, as one grows older and more independent. In my experience, the opposite has been the case. As you get older, you get less shy about asking for help and you venture further into terrain where you depend on the guidance of oth‑ ers. This book could not have been written without the en‑ couragement, conversation, and advice of many friends and colleagues. Special thanks go to the following, who read all or part of the manuscript and offered detailed comments and stimulating suggestions: Deborah Baker, David Barclay, Peter Burke, Marcus Colla, Amitav Ghosh, Oliver Haardt, Charlotte Johann, Duncan Kelly, Jürgen Luh, Annika Seemann, John Thompson, Adam Tooze, Alexandra Walsham, and Waseem Yaqoob. As then‑anonymous reviewers for Princeton Univer‑ sity Press, François Hartog, Jürgen Osterhammel, and Andy Rabinbach made enormously helpful comments on the man‑ uscript. Nora Berend, Francisco de Bethencourt, Tim Blan‑ ning, Annabel Brett, Matthew Champion, Kate Clark, Allegra Fryxell, Alexander Geppert, Beatrice de Graaf, Paul Hartle, Ulrich Herbert, Shruti Kapila, Hans‑Christof Kraus, Jona‑ than Lamb, Rose Melikan, Bridget Orr, Anna Ross, Kevin Rudd, Magnus Ryan, Martin Sabrow, and Quentin Skinner all offered precious a dvice on specific issues or passages of text. Nina Lübbren’s writing and thinking about time and nar‑ rative in art have shaped the book in many ways. Josef and Alexander, once happy distractions from the work of writing, have grown into thoughtful conversation partners whose in‑ sights nudged me through various bottlenecks. Kristina Spohr [ ix ]
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