| Contents |
Germans in a changing world. New worlds ; Combustions ; Empires -- Germany and the birth of the modern, 1780-1820. Revolutions ; Knowledge ; World literature -- Germans and the German nation in a globalizing world. A nation among others ; On the move ; Global traffic and the claims of German culture -- The "German Century" confounded. War, republic, Third Reich: Germany 1914-1939 ; The pivotal decade: Germany and global history, 1939-1949 ; The German question answered. |
| Abstract |
Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. |
| Abstract |
Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification- and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. He traces Germany's evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history-- the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime-- are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany's leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation's history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation's borders. -- adapted from Amazon |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781631491849 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 1631491830 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781631491832 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
