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Books begin as ideas. The suggestion for this one came from my mentor and friend, Hajo Holborn of Yale University. To him I am indebted for a series of challenging and rewarding experiences in the study of history. This work started as a routine dissertation on a limited subject, developed into a rejection of several generally accepted notions about German history, and finally opened out upon some broader perspectives of the modern Western world. In pursuing my topic I have tried to remain consistent and true to a fundamental conviction: that ideas cannot be dissociated from the men and situations that give birth to them, or from the changing characteristics of later men and later situations that use or affect the earlier ideological heritage. Politics by slogan is an aspect of man's activity that has its obvious, serious defects. These imperfections become more menacing when they are enshrined as history by slogan in the service of whatever cause. To counteract this tendency I have tried to tie the ideas of mid European integration clearly to specific persons or situations at every stage of development. Without such anchorage ideas will billow into slogans or evaporate into loose generalizations.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Mitteleuropa
• Subtitle: In German Thought and Action 1815-1945
• Author: Henry Cord Meyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378
• EAN: 9789401513616
• ISBN: 9401513619
• ID: 02005618
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 605 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 22 mm

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