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German History in Modern Times Four Lives of the Nation

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ISBN-10: 0521175216

ISBN-13: 9780521175210

Edition: 2011

Authors: William W. Hagen

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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 1914–1945 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…    
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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 482
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Master narratives and rival interpretations of modern German history
German Central Europe Before Modern Nationalism:
The pyramid of power in pre-modern Germany
Baroque and Enlightenment Germany, 1648-1789
Power states (Machtstaaten): the rise of the Prussian and Austrian military-bureaucratic monarchies
Aufkl�rung: the German Enlightenment and other spirits of the age
German Identities Between Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism, 1789-1914:
Revolution on the march: French challenge, German response, 1789-1815
'Land of poets and thinkers': the transition from Enlightenment universalism to German national culture
Freedom and voice, 'blood and iron': the struggle over liberalism and nationalism, 1815-1914
Power to the people: German social democracy in the age of industrialization
Women, family, feminism, 1789-1914
Habsburg Austria: a multinational path in German history
Jews, Germans, German Jews, 1789-1914
Nation in Crisis: Defeat, Turmoil, Aggression, 1914-1945:
The Prussian-German monarchy's sudden death: World War I and postwar revolution, 1914-1920
Democracy's bitter fruits: society and politics, 1918-1933
The rise of Hitlerism: middle-class discontent and populist utopia
The 'people's community' at Hitler's command: national and socialist Germany, 1933-1945
Lebensraum: the war for empire in Eastern Europe
Banned from nation and earth: German Jews after 1914, Nazi 'Jewish policy', and the Holocaust
The Cold War Germanies and Their Post-1989 Fusion: A Nation Reforged from Its Remnants?:
Return from the abyss: defeated Germany and the West German Federal Republic, 1949-1989
'Real existing socialism': Soviet-occupied Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990
Present-day Germany: the post-unification scene in West and East