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Germania : In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
by Winder, SimonEdition:
1st
ISBN13:
9780374254001
ISBN10:
0374254001
Format:
Hardcover
Pub. Date:
3/16/2010
Publisher(s):
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary
"Germania" explores how people are misled by history, how they twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. The work is full of curiosities, odd food, castles, mad princes, and fairy tales--the unseen sides of Germany.
Author Biography
SIMON WINDER has spent far too much time in Germany, denying himself a lot of sunshine and fresh fruit just to write this book. He is the author of the highly praised The Man Who Saved Britain (FSG, 2006) and works in publishing in London.
Table of Contents
| Maps | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 'Bound with chains of flowers' | |
| A note on Germany and German | |
| p. 17 | |
| From the land of gloomy forests | |
| Roman Germans | |
| An alligator far from home | |
| I'll have some green sauce with that | |
| The medieval car park | |
| p. 43 | |
| Ancient palaces | |
| Charles the Great | |
| Pious, Bald or Fat | |
| A very small town | |
| Spreading the Word | |
| In search of a bit of sunshine | |
| Thrust to the east | |
| p. 73 | |
| Walled towns | |
| Other superiority complexes | |
| A brief note on political structures | |
| German tribes | |
| Famine and plague | |
| Where a million diamonds shine | |
| p. 97 | |
| The tideless sea | |
| The curse of Burgundy | |
| Happy families | |
| Rampant folk costume | |
| Imperial circles | |
| Habsburgs | |
| p. 127 | |
| Spires, turrets and towers | |
| A birthplace and a death-house | |
| The devil's bagpipes | |
| The ruler of the world | |
| The New Jerusalem | |
| An unhappy wine merchant | |
| p. 155 | |
| The Golden City of the Faithful | |
| The land where lemon blossom grows | |
| Black armour | |
| The King of Sweden's horse | |
| A surprise visit from an asteroid | |
| p. 183 | |
| Hourglasses and bird-eating spiders | |
| 'Music to Escort the Dead from this Life' | |
| In the time of powdered wigs | |
| Damascened yataghans | |
| 'Burn the Palatinate!' | |
| Catholicism goes for broke | |
| p. 213 | |
| The descendants of Cyrus the Great | |
| Drinking chocolate with ostriches | |
| More competitive tomb-building | |
| Chromatic fantasia and fugue | |
| The Strong and the Fat | |
| p. 241 | |
| Little Sophie Zerbst | |
| Parks and follies | |
| In the footsteps of Goethe | |
| A glass pyramid filled with robin eggs | |
| A surprise appearance by a sea cow | |
| German victimhood | |
| Good-value chicken | |
| p. 269 | |
| Marches militaires | |
| Karl and Albrecht | |
| Girls in turrets | |
| Heroic acorns | |
| Victory columns | |
| p. 299 | |
| The grandeur and misery of nationalism | |
| Snow-shake particularism | |
| A surprise trip to Mexico | |
| p. 321 | |
| Lambs and ladybirds | |
| Jigsaw country | |
| Hunting masters | |
| Ruritania, Syldavia and their friends | |
| An absence | |
| p. 347 | |
| Beside the seaside | |
| Texan Wends | |
| Pidgin German | |
| Thomas and Ernie | |
| Podsnap in Berlin | |
| Varieties of militarism | |
| p. 379 | |
| Failure | |
| The British-German divorce | |
| Disaster | |
| Defeat and revolution | |
| Remembering the dead | |
| Some royal aftershocks | |
| p. 411 | |
| An unattractive lake | |
| Putsches and suspenders | |
| '5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...' | |
| The death of science | |
| Terminal throes | |
| Ending | |
| Conclusion | p. 435 |
| In the hills | |
| Mendel's statue | |
| Death by oompah | |
| Bibliography | p. 443 |
| Illustrations | p. 451 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 453 |
| Index | p. 455 |
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