Kitchen A History of Modern Germany

1800 to the Present
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9688-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, E-Book

Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of AHistory of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engaginglywritten account of German history from 1800 to the present.
* Provides readers with a long view of modern German history,revealing its continuities and changes
* Features updated and extended coverage of German social changeand modernization, class, religion, and gender
* Includes more in depth coverage of the German DemocraticRepublic
* Examines Germany's social, political, and economichistory
* Covers the unification of Germany, the German Empire, theWeimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war division, the collapseof Communism, and developments since re-unification
* Addresses regional history rather than focusing on thedominant role of Prussia

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitchen, Martin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Germany under Napoleon
2. German Society in Transition
3. Restoration and Reform: 1815-1840
4. The Revolutions of 1848
5. The Struggle for Mastery 1850-1866
6. The Unification of Germany: 1866-1871
7. Bismarck's Germany
8. Germany and Europe: 1871-1890
9. Wilhelmine Germany: 1890-1914
10. The First World War
11. The Weimar Republic: 1919-1933
12. The Nazi Dictatorship
13. Nazi Germany: 1933-1945
14. Adenauer Era: 1945-1963
15. The German Democratic Republic
16. The Federal Republic: 1963-1982
17. The Reunification of Germany
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Kitchen is Professor Emeritus of History at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His books include Nazi Germany at War (1994), The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany (1996), The German Offensives of 1918 (2001), The Third Reich: Charisma and Community (2008) and Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943 (2009).