| Description |
xi, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-423) and index. |
| Contents |
List of plates -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Germany under Napoleon -- The Age of Reform -- The war of liberation -- 2. German society in transition : 1800-70 -- Town and country -- The Industrial Revolution -- The emergence of a class society -- The Jewish community -- 3. Restoration and reform : 1815-40 -- Student radicalism -- Germany under Metternich -- Nationalism -- Constitutional developments -- The Zollverein -- The Congress system -- The t revolutionary movements -- 4. The revolutions of 1848 -- The Frankfurt Parliament -- The Constitutional question -- 5. The struggle for mastery : 1850-66 -- The Crimean War -- The Italian question -- The "new era" in Prussia -- The origins of social democracy -- The constitutional crisis in Prussia -- The Schleswig-Holstein question -- 6. The unification of Germany : 1866-71 -- The Franco-Prussian War -- The unification of Germany -- The role of the military -- Nationalism -- Jews in the new Germany -- |
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7. Bismarck's Germany -- The Kulturkampf -- Social democracy and the New Germany -- From free trade to protectionism -- The Anti-Socialist laws -- Liberals in Bismarck's Germany -- Class structure -- Women's place in the New Germany -- Sex and society -- 8. Germany and Europe : 1871-90 -- From the Congress of Berlin to the Dual Alliance -- Bismarck and Imperialism -- Bismarck's system of alliances -- 9. Wilhelmine Germany : 1890-1914 -- Caprivi and the "New course" -- Hohenlohe -- "World politics" and navalism -- Bülow -- Bethmann Hollweg -- 10. The First World War -- War aims and opposition -- From Bethmann Hollweg to Michaelis -- From Michaelis to Hertling -- The impact of the Bolshevik Revolution -- The revolution from above -- The Revolution of 1918 -- 11. The Weimar Republic : 1919-33 -- The Kapp Putsch -- Reparations and inflation -- The occupation of the Ruhr -- Stressman and fulfillment -- Weimar culture -- Locarno -- The Depression -- Brüning -- Von Papen -- Schleicher -- |
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12. The Nazi dictatorship -- Gleichschaltung -- Ernst Röhm and the SA -- Hitler in full command -- The Dual State -- The SS -- Anti-Semitism, racism, and euthanasia -- 13. Nazi Germany : 1933-45 -- Women in Nazi Germany -- First steps in foreign policy -- The Anschluss -- Czechoslovakia and appeasement -- The Polish crisis -- War -- The War in the West -- Barbarossa -- The beginnings of the Shoah -- The turn of the tide -- The Third Reich and modernization -- 14. The Adenauer era : 1945-63 -- Germany divided -- The German Democratic Republic -- The German question -- East Germany in the Khrushchev era -- Willy Brandt -- The Spiegel affair -- The end of the Adenauer era -- Culture in the Federal Republic -- 15. Two Germanys : 1963-82 -- The Federal Republic after Adenauer -- Willy Brandt as Chancellor -- East Germany under Honecker -- Helmuth Schmidt -- The candidature of Helmut Kohl -- The extra-Parliamentary opposition -- Helmuth Schmidt's chancellorship : the final phase -- |
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16. The reunification of Germany -- The winds of change -- Unification -- Germany unified -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
Germany -- History -- 1789-1900.
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Germany. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1789-1900 |
| Subject |
Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
1405100419 paperback alkaline paper |
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1405100400 alkaline paper |
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9781405100403 |
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9781405100410 |
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