Reluctant Meister

Germany and the New Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Germany is a country with a deep and complex history. Arguably there is no greater culture and no country has contributed more to the development of human ideas and creativity. Nor has any country sunk deeper into the abyss or experienced such redemption and renewal. It is this that instils the German story with a profound and universal significance.A generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall much of Europe remains uncertain about its identity and direction. As Britain prepares to leave the European Union these uncertainties are greater than ever. The euro and migrant crisis have seen Germany reluctantly assume a prominent role among the states of the European Union, but outright leadership remains deeply problematic for a country haunted by its past.What part will Germany – a land where over a long history of people have adopted layered identities – play in this new Europe? Whatever the answer, the implications for Britain and the future of the wider European project will be profound.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-08-15
Mått129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor325
FörlagHaus Publishing
ISBN9781910376577

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STEPHEN GREEN was for most of his career an international banker. From 2011 to 2013 he was Minister for Trade and Investment in the British Government. He now has a range of international trade, on financial and professional services and on child poverty and development programmes. He chairs the Natural History Museum of London and is an ordained priest in the Church of England. Stephen is the author of Good Value: Money, Morality and on an Uncertain World, The European Identity: Historical and Cultural Realities we cannot Deny, Brexit and the British: Who are we now? and co-authored Unwritten Rule: How to Fix the British Constitution.

Preface // ixIntroduction // xiii1. Springtime in Berlin // 12. Tears for my Country // 63. That Cursed Duty // 484. The Awakening of Germania // 745. Dem Deutschen Volke // 1056. Memories, Dreams and Nightmares // 1367. The Pact with the Devil // 1658. Remnants, Renewal, Redemption, Reconciliation // 1919. Confronting the Ghosts of Germany Past // 22410. The Reluctant Leader of the New Europe // 26511. Transfiguration and Apotheosis? // 299Notes // 303Selected Bibliography // 307Index // 315

‘For Stephen Green, Germany’s greatest achievement has been in coming to terms with its history ‘‘The process of confrontation has been neither easy nor quick,’’ he says. ‘‘There are many who have gone to their graves without being honest to themselves about their sins of omission and commission. But for all its imperfections, this atonement has been more thoroughgoing than in most other countries where human evil has been more rampant within living memory.’’ It would be hard to put it better.’