A history of modern Germany : 1871 to present
Dietrich Orlow
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall, Inc. 1987
- 371 p
The quest for unity, 1815-1871 -- The founders' generation, 1871-1890 -- Wilhelminian Germany, 1890-1914 -- The first world war, 1914-1918 -- Revolution, inflation, and putsches: the search for a new consensus, 1918-1923 -- Fool's 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, 1949-1985 -- The German democratic republic, 1949-1985.
Covering the entire period of modern German history - from nineteenth-century imperial Germany right through the present - this well-established text presents a balanced, general survey of the country's political division in 1945 and runs through its reunification in the present. Detailing foreign policy as well as political, economic and social developments, A History of Modern Germany presents a central theme of the problem of asymmetrical modernization in the country's history as it fully explores the complicated path of Germany's troubled past and stable present.
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0133903788
9780133903782
--Germany--1871---Germany--1789-1900--Germany--20th century