| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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German and American Nationalism: A Comparative Perspective. Ed. by Hartmut Lehmann and Hermann Wellenreuther. (New York: Berg, 1999. viii, 534 pp. $65.00, ISBN 1-85973-271-2.)

Since the early 1980s, the City of Krefeld has been sponsoring conferences on comparative aspects of German and United States history, beginning with the eighteenth century and continuing through comparisons of constitutional thought, the significance of World War I, and the experience of Reconstruction after the Civil War and World War II. Moved by the resurgence of ethnic violence in former Yugoslavia and elsewhere, the Academic Advisory Council decided in 1993 to devote its fifth symposium to the topic of nationalism, the papers from which are now collected in this volume. Discussions were organized around a series of paired papers on a not exactly symmetrical basis, with the United States treatments ranging from the colonial period to the late twentieth century and the German ones focusing more consistently on the imperial era of 1871–1918. . . .

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