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| List of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The German Lands and People | |
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| Mediaeval Germany | |
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| The beginnings of German history | |
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| Germany in the early and high middle ages | |
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| Germany in the later middle ages | |
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| The Age of Confessionalism, 1500-1648 | |
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| The German Reformation: the early years | |
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| The German Peasants' War | |
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| The development of the German Reformation | |
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| Germany in the age of Counter-Reformation | |
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| The Thirty Years War | |
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| The Peace of Westphalia and the effects of the War | |
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| The Age of Absolutism, 1648-1815 | |
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| Absolutism and the rise of Prussia | |
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| Religion, culture and Enlightenment | |
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| The impact of the French Revolution | |
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| The Age of Industrialisation, 1815-1918 | |
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| Restoration Germany, 1815-48 | |
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| The revolutions of 1848 | |
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| The unification of Germany | |
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| Germany under Bismarck | |
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| Society and politics in Wilhelmine Germany | |
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| Culture in Imperial Germany | |
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| Foreign policy and the First World War | |
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| Democracy and Dictatorship, 1918-45 | |
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| The Weimar Republic: origins and early years | |
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| The period of apparent stabilisation | |
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| The collapse of Weimar democracy | |
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| The consolidation of Hitler's power | |
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| Foreign policy and war | |
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| Holocaust, resistance and defeat | |
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| The Two Germanies, 1945-90 | |
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| The creation of the two Germanies | |
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| From establishment to consolidation | |
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| Politics in the two Germanies, 1949-89 | |
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| Economy and society in West Germany | |
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| Economy and society in the GDR, 1949-89 | |
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| The revolution of 1989 and the unification of Germany | |
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| The Federal Republic of Germany Since 1990 | |
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| Patterns and Problems of German History | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Index | |