Orlow Dietrich. A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to the Present

8th edition. — London: Routledge, 2018. — 477 p. — ISBN: 9781138742239 (hardback : alk. paper); ISBN: 9781138742246 (pbk. : alk. paper); ISBN: 9781351017992 (ebook : alk. paper)A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history, stretching from nineteenth-century imperial Germany, through political division and reunification, and into the present day. Beginning in the early 1870s and covering topics such as Wilhelminian Germany, the World Wars, revolution, inflation and putsches, the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic, and the German Democratic Republic, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the entire period of modern German history. Fully updated throughout, this new edition details foreign policy and political and economic history and includes increased coverage of social and cultural history—and history “from the bottom up”—as well as containing a new chapter that brings it right up to the present day. The book is supported by full discussion of past and present historiographic debates, illustrations, maps, further readings, and biographies of key German political, economic, and cultural figures within the “Im Mittelpunkt” feature. Fully exploring the complicated path of Germany’s troubled past and stable present, A History of Modern Germany
provides the perfect grounding for all students of German history.The Founders' Generation: 1871-1890
Wilhelminian Germany: 1890-1914
World War 1:1914-1918
Revolution, Inflation, and Putsches: The Search for a New Consensus, 1918-1923
Fools' Gold: The Weimar Republic, 1924-1930
From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism: 1930-1938
Conquest Death, and Defeat: 1938-1945
"Condominium of the Allied Powers": 1945-1949
The Federal Republic of Germany: 1949-1990
The German Democratic Republic: 1949-1990
Euphoria and Disillusionment: 1990-2005
The New Normal: 2005 to the PresentSuggestions for Further Reading