German history in modern times: four lives of the nation

2012; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 50; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.50-1093

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

William W. Hagen,

Tópico(s)

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

Resumo

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. Aufklarung: 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 multinational path in German history 12. Jews, Germans, German Jews, 1789-1914 Part III. Nation in Crisis: Defeat, Turmoil, Aggression, 1914-15: 13. The Prussian-German monarchy's sudden death: World War I and postwar revolution, 1914-20 14. Democracy's bitter fruits: society and politics, 1918-33 15. The rise of Hitlerism: middle-class discontent and populist utopia 16. The 'people's community' at Hitler's command: national and socialist Germany, 1933-45 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, 1949-89 20. 'Real existing socialism': Soviet-occupied Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-90 21. Present-day Germany: the post-unification scene in West and East.

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