National Monuments and Nationalism in 19th Century Germany

The nineteenth century saw an extraordinary building of monuments across Europe. This book looks at the subset that grew out of nation-wide initiatives and spoke to a whole nation rather than to one part of it, which the authors call national monuments. Nelson's Column in London and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris are familiar examples of the type.

Germany saw a flood of such monuments in the same period. Don Heinrich Tolzmann and Hans A. Pohlsander examine how these structures were conceived and what they were meant to say about the nation that raised them.

Historians of nationalism, art and public memory, and readers of German cultural history, are the audience the study has in view.

Bibliographic details: published by Peter Lang Ltd, with the ISBN-13 9783039113521.