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Book Synopsis Germany: The Long Road West by : Heinrich August Winkler
Download or read book Germany: The Long Road West written by Heinrich August Winkler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbours. This first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich', which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception. With a second volume that takes the story up to reunification in 1990, Germany: The Long Road West will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries.
Book Synopsis Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 2: 1933-1990 by : Heinrich August Winkler
Download or read book Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 2: 1933-1990 written by Heinrich August Winkler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany, offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbours. This second and final volume begins at the point of the collapse of the first German democracy, and ends with the joining of East and West Germany in the reunification of 1990. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception. The two volumes of Germany: The Long Road West, exploring the history of the German lands from the final days of the Holy Roman Empire to the very first of a reunified state in the late twentieth century, will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand a most complex and contradictory past.
Book Synopsis Germany by : Heinrich August Winkler
Download or read book Germany written by Heinrich August Winkler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich,' which was to experience so fateful a renaissance in the 20th century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. The author offers a synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights.
Author :Heinrich August Winkler Publisher :Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN 13 :0199265984 Total Pages :698 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (992 download)
Book Synopsis Germany: 1933-1990 by : Heinrich August Winkler
Download or read book Germany: 1933-1990 written by Heinrich August Winkler and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbors. This first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the "Reich," which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception. With a second volume that takes the story up to reunification in 1990, Germany: The Long Road West will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries.
Book Synopsis Germany: The Long Road West by : Heinrich August Winkler
Download or read book Germany: The Long Road West written by Heinrich August Winkler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbours. This second and final volume begins at the point of the collapse of the first German democracy, and ends with the joining of East and West Germany in the reunification of 1990. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception. The two volumes of Germany: The Long Road West, exploring the history of the German lands from the final days of the Holy Roman Empire to the very first of a reunified state in the late twentieth century, will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand a most complex and contradictory past.
Author :Heinrich August Winkler Publisher :Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN 13 :0199265976 Total Pages :610 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (992 download)
Book Synopsis Germany: 1789-1933 by : Heinrich August Winkler
Download or read book Germany: 1789-1933 written by Heinrich August Winkler and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich,' which was to experience so fateful a renaissance in the 20th century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. The author offers a synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights.
Book Synopsis Germany's Drive to the West (Drang Nach Westen) by : Hans W. Gatzke
Download or read book Germany's Drive to the West (Drang Nach Westen) written by Hans W. Gatzke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1950. Hans Gatzke analyzes Germany's ambitions to expand westward during World War I. Germany's wartime plans for expansion to the west had important repercussions at home and abroad. Gatzke proceeds chronologically, starting with the German political parties' outlining of their war aims. Gatzke claims that a combination of interests, including those of industrialists, pan-Germans, the parties of the Right, and the Supreme Command was responsible for the stubborn propagation of Germany's large war aims, which condemned the German people to remain at war until the bitter end. Each of these forces had its own particular reasons for wanting to hold out for far-reaching territorial gains, yet one aim that most of them had in common was ensuring, through a successful peace settlement, the continuation of the existing order, to their own advantage and to the political and economic detriment of the majority of the German people.
Book Synopsis Reformation, Religious Culture and Print in Early Modern Europe by : Arthur der Weduwen
Download or read book Reformation, Religious Culture and Print in Early Modern Europe written by Arthur der Weduwen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, commissioned in honour of Andrew Pettegree, presents original contributions on the Reformation, communication and the book in early modern Europe. Together, the essays reflect on Pettegree’s ground-breaking influence on these fields, and offer a comprehensive survey of the state of current scholarship.
Book Synopsis Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005 by : David M. Livingstone
Download or read book Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005 written by David M. Livingstone and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straightforward success story. The 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers shows that police violence is still a problem in Western democracies. Floyd's murder prompted some critics to hail the German police as a model of democratic policing that should be emulated. After 1945, Germany's police forces had supposedly shed the militarization and authoritarian impulses still prevalent in other nations' forces. These uncritical appraisals, however, deserve closer analysis. This book is a social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS), a federal border guard established in 1951 that became re-unified Germany's first national police force. It argues that the BGS revived authoritarian traditions of militarized policing and kept them alive long into the postwar era even though the country was supposedly consigning these problematic legacies to its past. The BGS was staffed and led by Wehrmacht and SS veterans until the late 1970s, and while West Germany was democratizing, BGS commanders were still planning to fight wars and were teaching its officers "street fighting" tactics. While the end outcome was positive, the study contributes to the growing body of recent research that complicates the writing of the Federal Republic's history as a "success story." Dealing explicitly with post-fascist West Germany's struggle to establish a democratic police force, the book enters a conversation with studies concerned with democratization, security, and Germany's effort to overcome its Nazi past. DAVID M. LIVINGSTONE holds a PhD in History from the University of California-San Diego. He is retired as Chief of Police of Simi Valley, California and is an adjunct professor at California Lutheran University"--
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of German Politics by : Klaus Larres
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of German Politics written by Klaus Larres and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few countries have caused or experienced more calamities in the 20th century than Germany. The country emerged from the Cold War as a newly united and sovereign state, eventually becoming Europe's indispensable partner for all major domestic and foreign policy initiatives. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of some of the major issues of German domestic politics, economics, foreign policy, and culture by leading experts in their respective fields. This book serves primarily as a reference work on Germany for scholars and an interested public, but through this broader lens it also provides a magnifying glass of global developments which are challenging and transforming the modern state. The growing importance of Germany as a political actor and economic partner makes this endeavor all the more timely and pertinent from a German, European, and global perspective.
Book Synopsis The Paradox of German Power by : Hans Kundnani
Download or read book The Paradox of German Power written by Hans Kundnani and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: The return of history? -- The German question -- Idealism and realism -- Continuity and change -- Perpetrators and victims -- Economics and politics -- Europe and the world -- Conclusion: Geo-economic semi-hegemony.
Book Synopsis Germany and 'The West' by : Riccardo Bavaj
Download or read book Germany and 'The West' written by Riccardo Bavaj and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
Book Synopsis German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West by : Austin Harrington
Download or read book German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West written by Austin Harrington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been considerable interest in recent years in German social thinkers of the Weimar era. Generally, this has focused on reactionary and nationalist figures such as Schmitt and Heidegger. In this book, Austin Harrington offers a broader account of the German intellectual legacy of the period. He explores the ideas of a circle of left-liberal cosmopolitan thinkers (Troeltsch, Scheler, Tönnies, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Mannheim, Jaspers, Curtius, and Simmel) who responded to Germany's crisis by rejecting the popular appeal of nationalism. Instead, they promoted pan-European reconciliation based on notions of a shared European heritage between East and West. Harrington examines their concepts of nationhood, religion, and 'civilization' in the context of their time and in their bearing on subsequent debates about European identity and the place of the modern West in global social change. The result is a groundbreaking contribution to current questions in social, cultural and historical theory.
Book Synopsis In the Heart of Germany--in the Twentieth Century by : Germany (West). Bundesministerium für Gesamtdeutsche Fragen
Download or read book In the Heart of Germany--in the Twentieth Century written by Germany (West). Bundesministerium für Gesamtdeutsche Fragen and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quest for the Lost Nation by : Sebastian Conrad
Download or read book The Quest for the Lost Nation written by Sebastian Conrad and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly praised when published in Germany, The Quest for the Lost Nation is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not abandon national perspectives during reconstruction. Quite the opposite—the nation remained hidden at the center of texts as scholars tried to make sense of the past and searched for fragments of the nation they had lost. By situating both countries in the Cold War, Conrad shows that the focus on the nation can be understood only within a transnational context.
Book Synopsis Under the Spell of Freedom by : Hans Joas
Download or read book Under the Spell of Freedom written by Hans Joas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other? The variety of views on this subject in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, and the public is broad and confusing. But the grandiose synthesis in which Hegel brought together Christianity and political freedom is still an enormous source of orientation for many-despite or even because of the influential provocations of Friedrich Nietzsche. As Hans Joas shows in Under the Spell of Freedom, a different view has developed in the religious thinking of the twentieth century based on a conception of history that is more open to the future and on a concept of freedom that is richer than that of Hegel. Using sixteen selected thinkers, Joas deconstructs the grand Hegelian narrative of human history as the self-realization of the idea of freedom, setting as a counterpart the sketches of a theory of the emergence of moral universalism. Further, taking the classical views of Hegel and his emphasis on the role of Protestant Christianity and the extremely negative views about Christianity in the work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Joas elaborates on this new understanding of religion and freedom, which avoids both Eurocentrism and an intellectualist view of religious faith and practice. The result is a forceful plea for a global history of moral universalism. Under the Spell of Freedom is an important step in this direction.
Book Synopsis With the German Armies in the West by : Sven Anders Hedin
Download or read book With the German Armies in the West written by Sven Anders Hedin and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive account of Germany's 1914 campaign in Belgium and France written after Hedin's 6-week tour of the Western Front at the invitation of the German government, providing him with access to military operations and government officials.
