Book Guild Publishing, 2015. — 739 p. Death of a Nation is an engrossing, meticulously researched history of Germany from 105 BC to the present day, vividly illustrating the rich and complex past of a nation that is so often defined by the events of World War Two. The author, Stephen A'Barrow, spent twenty years researching, travelling and writing to compile this account of the...
Thistle Publishing, 2014. — 420 p. There were but three Kaisers, and the span of their reigns lasted for less than fifty years; yet for sheer drama, for turbulence, for bloody impact upon the lives of millions, the short-lived Second Reich of the Hohenzollern dynasty, born out of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, nurtured in militarism, and self- immolated in the slaughter of...
Köln: Naumann & Göbel Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007. — 320 S. — ISBN: 978-3-8155-7802-5 Über ein Jahrtausend deutsche Geschichte in hundert Bildern und hundert Kurzkapiteln auf je einer Doppelseite. Hört sich nach drastischer Komprimierung an, und das ist es auch, aber eine der Konzentration auf das Wesentliche. Die Bilder sagen zudem mehr, als in Unterschriften zu fassen ist, und...
Routledge, 2021. — 280 p. Originally published in 1981 and now re-issued with a new Preface, this book contains contributions on key issues such as the origins of the First World War, the psychological impact of that war on the Germans, the enigmatic personality of Walter Rathenau, anti-semitism and paramilitarism, as well as German Ostpolitik during the Weimar period. The...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. — 624 p. — ISBN10: 0195076729; ISBN13: 978-0195076721 In the late eighteenth century, German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of principalities and lordships. Most people lived in the countryside, and just half survived until their late twenties. By the beginning of our own century, unified Germany was the most powerful state in Europe. No...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 464 p. This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices—even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett—into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon. Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The events that took place in Germany...
Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2014. — 228 p. "Bier, Gaudi und Enthemmung" - das weit verbreitete Bild vom Verhältnis der Münchner zu den revolutionären Umbrüchen der neuesten Geschichte ist nicht selten klischeebeladen und hoch selektiv. Es ist höchste Zeit, diese schwarz-weiß-Malerei abzuschattieren - durch einen neuartigen facettenreichen Überblick von den napoleonischen Kriegen...
Routledge, 2014. — 288 p. Chronicles the modern history of Germany, discussing its transitions under different leaders, its survival after two lost wars, and a 40 year division, discusses the events that lead to the restoration of German unity, and provides brief biographies for 152 Germans.
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 312 p. This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history―Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler―to look at history through a...
Lexington Books, 2010. — 140 p. For the first time in any language, a book examines the life of Hans Luther, the German statesman whose career began at the tail end of the Second Empire and ended in the postwar years. Luther had a front-row seat for World War I, the Revolution of 1918, the Great Inflation, the Great Depression, and the rise of the Third Reich-serving as...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. — 841 p. — (Oxford History of Modem Europe). Pays close attention to the people, parties, and pressure groups that influenced German policy in foreign and domestic matters. Half the book is devoted to the crucial period folowing the collapse of Germany in World War I. The author deals with Weimare Germany in all its contradictory...
Wiley-VCH, 2009. — 600 S. — ISBN13: 978-3527703227. Spannend und ergreifend, blutig und leidenschaftlich, geschickt verwoben und stringent; die größte Erzählung aller Zeiten: Die deutsche Geschichte; sie musste nur aufgeschrieben werden. Christian von Ditfurth nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise zu wilden Horden, Königen, Kaisern, Ketzern und Kriegen. Er erzählt eine Geschichte von...
Routledge, 2015. — 272 p. This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches, bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants and thieves, from the end of the thirteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. This book is...
Andhof, 2017. Серия исторических зарисовок различных периодов жизни германских народов от раннего средневековья и до середины 19-го века. Описаны обычаи, манеры и ментальность различных исторических эпох. Автор публиковал части этой книги начиная с 1859 года по 1867.
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 424 pp. — ISBN: 978-0195075717. Covering all major aspects of German history from the Weimar Republic through reunification, this new book offers a remarkably rich, insightful survey of a difficult and controversial subject. It integrates East German history more fully than any previous account, offering a precisely nuanced picture of life in...
3rd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 306 p. This third edition of Mary Fulbrook's much-admired and popular introduction to German history provides a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of the story of the German lands and peoples from the early middle ages to the present day. Crisply synthesising a vast array of historical material, Fulbrook...
Routledge, 2013. — 159 p. The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe, the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification presents an introduction to the last two hundred years of German history and addresses questions raised...
Tredition, 2018. — 375 p. The Austrian Archduke and his wife were killed in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb. This double murder led to Austria's declaration of war on Serbia. That, in turn, was one reason why Russia declared war on Austria, which in turn led Germany to declare war on Russia. Other states followed Russia and the First World War, the most gruesome war the world has...
Tredition, 2018. — 425 p. Emperor Maximilian I is the last knight. With his death the Middle Ages end and modern times begin. Martin Luther publishes his famous theses and the Reformation changes the Christian world. The emergence of two denominations eventually leads to the cruelest war that Germany has experienced until then. It is the Thirty Years' War that devastates entire...
The Experiment, 2019. — 254 p. An internationally bestselling, fresh, and entertaining take on the 2,000-year history of Germany—a country at the heart of the West's survival. As the West grapples with the rise of populism, some cite Germany as one of the last global powers capable of restoring Europe's fading glory and upholding Western liberal values seemingly under threat...
München: C.H.Beck, 2016. — 125 S. — ISBN: 978-3-406-67507-2 Das 19. Jahrhundert begann mit der Französischen Revolution und endete mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg. In dieser Zeit erlebte Deutschland den Zusammenbruch der ständischen Welt, die bürgerliche Revolution von 1848/49 mit ihren sozialrevolutionären Unterströmungen sowie eine industrielle Revolution, die gewaltige...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 1264 p. — ISBN: 978-0-190070-64-1. Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years after World War II. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful democracy, and the longest period of...
München: C.H.Beck, 2014. — 1760 S. — ISBN: 978-3-406-66137-2 Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert – das sind zwei Weltkriege, eine gescheiterte Demokratie, Hitler-Diktatur und Holocaust, ein 40 Jahre lang geteiltes Land. Aber es ist auch Sozialstaat, Wohlstand, Liberalisierung und Globalisierung, eine erfolgreiche Demokratie und die längste Friedensperiode der europäischen...
Routledge, 2020. — 280 р. This important addition to modern German studies treats the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich as a continuum, exploring its themes through the 1920s and 1930s without artificial breaks. John Hiden looks at key issues in political, social and economic history, and in international relations. He highlights Germany's potentially constructive role in...
Planegg: CreateSpace IPP, 2018. — 38 s. — ISBN10: 1718900465; ISBN13: 978-1718900462 — (Studien zur deutschen Sozialdemokratie) Der SPD-Politiker Georg von Vollmar (1850-1922) gilt nicht nur der bayerischen SPD als Galionsfigur. Nach ihm ist die bekannteste Einrichtung der bayerischen SPD-nahen Bildungsstätte, die Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie in Kochel am See und die...
Routledge, 2019. — 352 p. Taking the religiously diverse city of Augsburg as its focus, this book explores the under-appreciated role of local clergy in mediating and interpreting the Peace of Augsburg in the decades following its 1555 enactment, focusing on the efforts of the preacher Johann Meckhart and his heirs in blunting the cultural impact of confessional religion. It...
Penn State University Press, 2006. — 280 p. Through the colorful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried to investigate marriage and...
The History Press, 2011. — 182 p. One family's personal story is combined with a popular history of Germany from the 1920s through the fall of communism Helmut and Charlotte Jacobitz were born in Berlin during the mid-1920s. They experienced depression and inflation, witnessed violence as fascists and communists vied for control of Germany, and when the Nazis prevailed, they...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 464 p. — (Understanding Modern Nations). — ISBN 978-1-4408-6454-4. Germany and its capital, Berlin, were the fulcrum of geopolitics in the twentieth century. After the Second World War, Germany was a divided nation. Many German citizens were born and educated and continued to work in eastern Germany (the former German Democratic Republic). This title in the...
Routledge, 2021. — 221 p. Originally published in 1954, this book presents the view of nine liberal German historians in reconsideration of the dominant concepts of German political and cultural history in the immediate post-war years. They review critically not only the rise and rule of National Socialism, but also the strength of authoritarianism and militarism, the weakness...
Brill, 2019. — 277 p. — (Studies in Central European Histories 65). Hundreds of rural communities tasted political freedom in the Holy Roman Empire. For shorter or longer periods, villagers managed local affairs without subjection to territorial overlords. In this first book-length study, Beat Kümin focuses on the five case studies of Gochsheim and Sennfeld (in present-day...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 312 p. Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi...
Picador, 2015. — 432 p. Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by the Wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Today it resonates with the echo of lives...
Penguin, 2023. — 464 p. The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin. Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 317 p. Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party functionaries, and intelligence...
Routledge, 2017. — 268 p. Although their role is often neglected in standard historical narratives of the Reformation, the Ottoman Turks were an important concern of many leading thinkers in early modern Germany, including Martin Luther. In the minds of many, the Turks formed a fearsome, crescent-shaped horizon that threatened to break through and overwhelm. Based on an...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 255 p. From the emergence of department stores in the late 19th century to the financial disasters of the years following the end of World War I, the history of large-scale retailing in Germany was dominated by a pioneering generation of German-Jewish entrepreneurs who found fortune and influence only to have their livelihoods taken by Hitler and...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 311 p. Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses...
Methuen, 2019. — 517 p. Originally published in 1967, this book discusses economic and constitutional developments and religious history in relation to their political consequences. Political theory is treated in two sections: one is devoted to the ideas current from 1789 to the ‘revolutionary year’ of 1848, and another to those of the Bismarckian era. The author used archival...
University of North Carolina Press, 2000. — 336 p. Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois women's associations in Hanover, a large provincial capital, from the Imperial period to the Nazi seizure of power. She examines the social and demographic foundations of the Hanoverian women's movement, interweaving local history with...
Basic Books, 1998. — 1107 p. — ISBN 9780786705108, 0786705108. An author narrates the history of Berlin from its birth in pre-Roman times through its pivotal position in many of the twentieth century's turning points, including Hitler's attempts to build a fascist empire, and the painful division that resulted from the Cold War. List of maps Introduction History, Myth, and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 1558 p. This final volume of John C. G, Röhl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Wilhelm's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with Britain and Germany's rivalry with the United States as well as in the crises...
London: Verso, 1990. — 380 p. — ISBN10: 086091528X; ISBN13: 978-0860915287 — (Verso Modern Classics) This first modern study provides an original and balanced perspective of a theorist whom Lenin referred to as both "master of Marxism" and "renegade". Examining Kautsky's political thought over a period stretching from the Paris Commune to the Second World War, the author argues...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 9780521377591; ISBN13: 978-0521377591 The arduous path from the colorful diversity of the Holy Roman Empire to the Prussian-dominated German nation-state, Bismarck's German Empire of 1871, led through revolutions, wars and economic upheavals, but also through the cultural splendor of German Classicism and...
Liveright, 2020. — 608 p. For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history―the first comprehensive volume to go well beyond World War II―challenges traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past, revealing a nation far more...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhof; 1973 — 253 p. — ISBN10: 9024714605; ISBN13: 978-9024714605 Many historians have concerned themselves with the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the means used to unite the disparate sections of Germany, many of which had older traditions than did Bismarck's Prussia. Understandably writers have given more attention to the victor than to the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 344 p. Sexuality in Modern German History offers both a detailed survey of this key subject and a new intervention in the history of sexuality in modern Germany. It investigates the diverse and often contradictory ways in which individuals, activists, doctors, politicians, artists, church leaders, reform movements and cultural commentators have...
Stroud, UK: Fonthill Media, 2014. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1781550018; ISBN13: 978-1781550014 Wilhelm II (27 January 1859 - 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was the eldest grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to many monarchs and princes of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 450 p. Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written 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 change...
Harper, 2010. — 992 p. The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy, The German Genius is a lively and accessible review...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 176 p. Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire" is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had allegedly impeded German unification. Since 1945 scholars have been more positive but the empire's history and significance is still largely...
2nd ed. — Palgrave, 2016. — 536 p. This essential text provides a clear and engaging introduction to the history of modern Germany. The updated and expanded new edition now takes the story back to 1789 and brings it right up to the present day, adopting a controversy-led approach throughout. Visual evidence, maps, documents and key event boxes support the text and aid learning.
The History Press, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0752461141; ISBN13: 978-0752461144. The full story of the woman of Jewish descent who spied for Hitler among British high society, persuaded the Daily Mail to support the Nazis, and was awarded the Gold Cross of the Nazi Party Stefanie von Hohenlohe was born to a middle-class Viennese family and of partly Jewish descent. After...
Allen Lane, 2016. — 1008 p. A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern European states, from Germany to the Czech Republic, its relations with Italy, France and...
М.: АСТ, 2021. — 320 с. Германия. Страна под этим названием появилась не так давно. Сто пятьдесят лет назад. До этого германские княжества, объединённые общим языком и культурой, заключали союзы, воевали, ссорились и мирились. Их правители перекраивали карту Европы и решали судьбы мира. История германского народа богата на события. В ней есть как величайшие взлеты, невероятные...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 703 с. После Второй мировой войны Пруссия - многовековое государство, сыгравшее ключевую роль в развитии Европы, - прекратила свое существование. Стремясь стереть с лица земли все следы Третьего рейха, союзники считали, что Пруссия - само воплощение немецкого милитаризма - должна быть...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 230 с.— ISBN: 5-9524-1493-1. Автор этой книги попытался реконструировать социальную структуру и каждодневную жизнь варваров на основе обобщающих выводов археологов, наблюдений искусствоведов и лингвистов. Рассматривается промежуток времени от II в. до н.э., когда цивилизованные народы впервые обратили внимание на варваров, до периода Великого...
М.: Политическая энциклопедия, 2020. — 549 с. — (Мир Французской революции). Вниманию читателей представлен фундаментальный труд известного российского историка, профессора Николая Алексеевича Троицкого (1931 - 2014). Книга стала результатом его многолетних исследований наполеоновской темы и истории русско-французских отношений. Это не просто биография выдающегося...
Перевод с немецкого К. Левинсона. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. — (Historia mundi). Ульрих Херберт рассматривает историю Германии в XX веке с двух точек зрения, которые, казалось бы, противоречат друг другу. С одной стороны, на страницах этой фундаментальной монографии перед нами пройдут великие войны и политические потрясения. Германия – земля, в которой зародились...
Перевод с немецкого К. Левинсона. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. — (Historia mundi). Ульрих Херберт рассматривает историю Германии в XX веке с двух точек зрения, которые, казалось бы, противоречат друг другу. С одной стороны, на страницах этой фундаментальной монографии перед нами пройдут великие войны и политические потрясения. Германия – земля, в которой зародились...
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