"With this masterful analysis of the German Question through anthems, holidays, and political parties, Erin R. Hochman reclaims transborder nationalism from the far right and elegantly reassesses liberal democracy's vitality in interwar Austria and Germany."
"Erin R. Hochman has written a thoughtful and sure-handed account of republican nationalism in Germany and Austria during the interwar years. Americans and West Europeans often do not have a clear understanding of the relationship between Germany and Austria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the role of German nationalism in its republican form. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this story is the left-wing, großdeutsch nationalism that was part of interwar politics in both Germany and Austria."
"Imagining a Greater Germany is an important contribution to the history of interwar Austria and Germany. Its challenge to existing historiography is well-argued and its consistently transnational focus exemplary."—Peter Thaler, University of Southern Denmark, author of The Ambivalence of Identity: The Austrian Experience of Nation-Building in a Modern Society
"Erin R. Hochman's work on interwar republican nationalism fits nicely into a broader trend that questions the notion that German politics was dominated by nationalists and that their triumph was somehow inevitable."—Ian Reifowitz, SUNY Empire State College, author of Imagining an Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity, 1846–1919
"Erin R. Hochman has written a thoughtful and sure-handed account of republican nationalism in Germany and Austria during the interwar years. Americans and West Europeans often do not have a clear understanding of the relationship between Germany and Austria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the role of German nationalism in its republican form. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this story is the left-wing, großdeutsch nationalism that was part of interwar politics in both Germany and Austria."—David S. Luft, Oregon State University, author of Eros and Inwardness in Vienna
"Imagining a Greater Germany is a compelling intervention into debates about interwar Central European democracy, the Anschluss, and großdeutsch thinking. Erin R. Hochman shows that democratic visions of German nationhood shaped politics and culture in Weimar Germany and the Austrian First Republic in critical ways. Hochman's transnational approach shows that far from being 'republics without republicans,’ these states and their interconnected political cultures drew as much on the republican ideas of 1848 as on right-wing nationalism, and that Nazism was far from inevitable after 1918."—Caitlin Murdock, California State University, Long Beach, author of Changing Places
"With this masterful analysis of the German Question through anthems, holidays, and political parties, Erin R. Hochman reclaims transborder nationalism from the far right and elegantly reassesses liberal democracy's vitality in interwar Austria and Germany."—Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, author of The German Minority in Interwar Poland
