German history in modern times four lives of the nation
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 Germ...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Master narratives and rival interpretations of modern German history; Part I: German Central Europe Before Modern Nationalism: 2. The pyramid of power in pre-modern Germany; 3. Baroque and Enlightenment Germany, 1648-1789; 4. Power states (Machtstaaten): the rise of the Prussian and Austrian military-bureaucratic monarchies; 5. Aufkla;rung: the German Enlightenment and other spirits of the age; Part II: German Identities Between Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism, 1789-1914: 6. Revolution on the march: French challenge, German response, 1789-1815; 7. 'Land of poets and thinkers': the transition from Enlightenment universalism to German national culture; 8. Freedom and voice, 'blood and iron': the struggle over liberalism and nationalism, 1815-1914; 9. Power to the people: German social democracy in the age of industrialization; 10. Women, family, feminism, 1789-1914; 11. Habsburg Austria: a multi-national path in German history; 12. Jews, Germans, German Jews, 1789-1914; Part III: Nation in Crisis: Defeat, Turmoil, Aggression, 1914-1945: 13. The Prussian-German monarchy's sudden death: World War I and postwar revolution, 1914-1920; 14. Democracy's bitter fruits: society and politics, 1918-1933; 15. The rise of Hitlerism: middle-class discontent and populist utopia; 16. The 'people's community' at Hitler's command: national and socialist Germany, 1933-1945; 17. Lebensraum: the war for empire in Eastern Europe; 18. Banned from nation and earth: German Jews after 1914, Nazi 'Jewish policy', and the Holocaust; Part IV: The Cold War Germanies and Their Post-1989 Fusion: A Nation Reforged from Its Remnants?: 19. Return from the abyss: defeated Germany and the West German Federal Republic, 1949-1989; 20. 'Real existing socialism': Soviet-occupied Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990; 21. Present-day Germany: the post-unification scene in West and East.
