German Politics and Medieval History

Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape

“…In the final analysis, however, this pan-Germanic mode of 105, 174-1 75). I thought led to an idea of a greater Germany that absorbed neighboring territories, and that homogenized German society into an abstract Volk-Geminschaft, bound to the soil, and believed (ultimately) to think with a single mind (Nitschke 1968;Poliakov 1974:71-105). In the end w e find Jacob Grimm writing polemics, on the basis of specious folk-cultural and geographic arguments, for the incorporation of large sections of Denmark into Germany (Peppard 1971 :223, 231 -232).…”