History of Modern Germany Since 1815

Name: History of Modern Germany Since 1815
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ISBN: 9780520240490

ISBN-10: 0520240499

ISBN-13: 9780520240490

Edition: 2003

Authors: Frank Tipton

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Germany has fascinated its own people as well as onlookers in the twentieth century because, unlike the history of other European states, its very being has been posed as a question. Why was there no unified German state until late in the nineteenth century? How did Germany become an industrial power? What responsibility does Germany bear for the two world wars? This accessible but authoritative study attempts to answer these and other fundamental questions by looking at the economic, social, political and cultural forces that have created modern Germany. The 1848 revolutions ushered in an age of Realism that saw rapid economic development and the creation of the Bismarckian empire.…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 751
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English



List of Plates


List of Figures


List of Maps


List of Tables


Preface



Introduction: From Generation to Generation



The Romantic Age, 1815-40



A Revolutionary Generation: The 1840s and the Revolutions of 1848



The Age of Realism, 1850-71



An Anxious Generation, 1871-90



Neoclassical Facade and Modernist Revolt, 1890-1914



Politics, Governance, and Diplomacy between Neoclassicism and Modernism



The First World War



An Expressionist Age: The Weimar Republic, 1918-33



The Politics of Feeling and the Search for Stability



A "German Style": The Nazi Generation



Nazi Politics: The Road to War and the Holocaust



Abstract Expressionism and Socialist Realism: Divided Germany in an Age of Economic Miracles



A Postmodern Generation: West and East Germany after the Miracle, 1973-89



Neo-Realism: Reunification and Reunited Germany


Bibliography


Index