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A History of Modern Germany

Author : Dietrich Orlow

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 577 pages

File Size : 29,30 MB

Release : 2016-11-03

Category : History

ISBN : 1315508354

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Covering the entire period of modern German history - from nineteenth-century imperial Germany right through the present - this well-established text presents a balanced, general survey of the country's political division in 1945 and runs through its reunification in the present. Detailing foreign policy as well as political, economic and social developments, A History of Modern Germany presents a central theme of the problem of asymmetrical modernization in the country's history as it fully explores the complicated path of Germany's troubled past and stable present.



German History 1789-1871

Author : Eric Dorn Brose

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 14,5 MB

Release : 2013-08-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1782380442

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During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are thematically compartmentalized. This book overcomes these divisions, offering a wide-ranging account of this revolutionary century and skillfully combining narrative with analysis. Its lively style makes it very accessible and ideal for all students of nineteenth-century Germany.



German History in Modern Times

Author : William W. Hagen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 483 pages

File Size : 22,77 MB

Release : 2012-02-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1316025225

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This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire; the nineteenth century; the 1914–45 era of war, dictatorship and genocide; and the Cold War and post-Cold War eras since 1945 as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality. This book's 'Germany' is polycentric and multicultural, including the multinational Austrian Habsburg Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism offers a conceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The book's numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and styles of life, which often contrast with Western ideas of Germany.



Liberal Imperialism in Germany

Author : Matthew P. Fitzpatrick

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 37,61 MB

Release : 2008

Category : History

ISBN : 9781845455200

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In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity leading up to the official founding of Germany's colonial empire in 1884.



German History 1789-1871

Author : Eric Dorn Brose

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 16,84 MB

Release : 2013-08

Category : History

ISBN : 1782380043

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Book Description

During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are thematically compartmentalized. This book overcomes these divisions, offering a wide-ranging account of this revolutionary century and skillfully combining narrative with analysis. Its lively style makes it very accessible and ideal for all students of nineteenth-century Germany.



Germany and 'The West'

Author : Riccardo Bavaj

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 10,88 MB

Release : 2017-06

Category : History

ISBN : 1785335049

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“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.





Art, War and Revolution in France, 1870-1871

Author : John Milner

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 49,94 MB

Release : 2000-01-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0300084072

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En beskrivelse af franske kunstneres opfattelse af Frankrigs krig mod Preussen, Pariserkommunen og den nye franske republik, som det kommer til udtryk i deres kunst



The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century

Author : Toni Pierenkemper

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 43,81 MB

Release : 2004-02-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1782387218

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In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western societies. Even though industrialization is on the wane in some advanced economies and we are experiencing substantial structural changes again, the causes and consequences of these changes are inextricably linked with earlier industrialization.This means that understanding 19th Century industrialization helps us understand problems of contemporary economic growth. There is no recent study on economic developments in 19th Century Germany. So this concise volume, written specifically with students of German and economic history in mind, will prove to be most valuable, not least because of its wealth of statistical data.



Imperial Germany Revisited

Author : Sven Oliver Müller

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 47,36 MB

Release : 2011-09-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0857452878

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The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.