Publication

2011 - W.W. Norton & Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,750 words, Guess

Page Count

303 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100393062651
  • ISBN-139780393062656
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010049425
  • OCLC Control Number668194819
  • Better World Books9780393062656
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC936.3/02
  • LCCPA6706.G4 K736 2011
  • LCCPA6706.G4K736 2011

Description

This book traces the Roman writer's portrait of the "ancient Germans" from its genesis and political context in the 1st and 2nd century CE over its survival through the Middle Ages and rediscovery in the Renaissance to the Third Reich. It thereby examines the book's influence on the internal and external image of the Germans, as distinguished from the "Germanen", the original subject of the study.

Description

Traces the five-hundred year history and wide-ranging influence of the Roman historian's unflattering book about the ancient Germans that was eventually extolled by the Nazis as a bible.

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Other Editions

  • A most dangerous book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third ReichHardcoverW.W. Norton & Co.2011-01-01

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