Good Girls, Good Germans: Girls' Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany

by Jennifer Drake Askey

Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls.

The age of nationalism in nineteenth-century Germany generally conjures up images of the Prussian military, F rst Otto von Bismarck, and Hohenzollern kings who welded together a nation out of disparate principalities through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135626
• ISBN13: 9781571135629
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"