From the Book - First edition
PART I THE NATION BEFORE NATIONALISM --
Seeing Germany for the First Time (c. 1500) --
"Germany . . . As If in a Mirror" (c. 1500-1580) --
The Tears of Stoics (c. 1580-1700) --
PART II THE COPERNICAN TURN --
Partition and Patriotism (c. 1700-1770) --
The Surface and the Interior (c. 1770-1790) --
De l'Allemagne (c. 1790-1815) --
PART III THE AGE OF NATIONALISM --
Developing Nation (c. 1815-1850) --
Nation Shapes (c. 1850-1870) --
Objective Nation (c. 1870-1914) --
PART IV THE NATIONALIST AGE --
Sacrifice For (c. 1914-1933) --
Sacrifice Of (c. 1933-1941) --
Death Spaces (c. 1941-1945) --
PART V AFTER NATIONALISM --
A Living Concept of Fatherland (c. 1945-1950) --
The Presence of Compassion (c. 1950-2000) --
Epilogue: The Republic of the Germans at the Beginning of the Twenty-Second Century