Author: Katja Hoyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France—all without destroying itself in the process? In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.
Blood and Iron
Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
Author: Philip Zelikow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674353251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This work provides an analysis of the moves and manoeuvres that brought an end to the Cold War division of Europe. Coverage includes discussion of the opening of the Berlin Wall and a study of the relationship between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and reform Communist leader, Hans Modrow.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674353251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This work provides an analysis of the moves and manoeuvres that brought an end to the Cold War division of Europe. Coverage includes discussion of the opening of the Berlin Wall and a study of the relationship between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and reform Communist leader, Hans Modrow.
German Unification in the European Context
Author: Peter H. Merkl
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271044098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271044098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification
Author: édéric Bozo
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845454278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. --from publisher description.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845454278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. --from publisher description.
Triumph of the Fatherland
Author: Brigitte Young
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
DIVTells the story of the women who fought for a voice in the construction of a German state system /div
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
DIVTells the story of the women who fought for a voice in the construction of a German state system /div
Germany After Unification
Author: Gert-Joachim Glaessner
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042000568
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042000568
Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Unification of Germany, 1815-90
Author: Andrina Stiles
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340781425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This title examines 19th century German history in terms of the factors that most significantly affected the movement towards national unity. Social, cultural, religious, and economic changes in Germany are discussed, including the revolutionary movements of the 1840s and the rise of Prussia.
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340781425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This title examines 19th century German history in terms of the factors that most significantly affected the movement towards national unity. Social, cultural, religious, and economic changes in Germany are discussed, including the revolutionary movements of the 1840s and the rise of Prussia.
Beyond the Wall
Author: Elizabeth Pond
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815705796
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Beyond the Wall is the first book, in either English or German, to tell the whole story of the extraordinary revolution that demolished the Berlin Wall, ended the Cold war, and tore apart the Soviet regime. Elizabeth Pond, former Moscow and European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, was an eyewitness to the dramatic events of 1989-92 and to the fifteen years of relations between Germany and Eastern Europe leading up to them. Pond weaves together in riveting prose the strands of events that are usually recounted separately. Rather than looking just at the East German revolt or the process of unification that created a new nation, she traces the interaction of these events and their diplomatic consequences for Europe. Pond shows the political, economic, and social forces at work--leading up to the unification, during the transition process, and in the aftermath. Looking at the European framework, she explains how significantly the European Community and its move toward integration both affected and were affected by German unification. The book contains a wealth of new information form hundreds of interviews with top German and American policymakers, East German Politburo members and average German citizens. It also incorporates up-to-date research on such topics as the Stasi secret police and the midlife crisis of the German left. Pond concludes with an assessment of the roles of the United States and a unified Germany in the new Europe. Calling for a continued partnership between the United States and Germany, who "have come through a common baptism of fire since the fall of the Berlin Wall," Pond casts an optimistic eye toward the future.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815705796
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Beyond the Wall is the first book, in either English or German, to tell the whole story of the extraordinary revolution that demolished the Berlin Wall, ended the Cold war, and tore apart the Soviet regime. Elizabeth Pond, former Moscow and European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, was an eyewitness to the dramatic events of 1989-92 and to the fifteen years of relations between Germany and Eastern Europe leading up to them. Pond weaves together in riveting prose the strands of events that are usually recounted separately. Rather than looking just at the East German revolt or the process of unification that created a new nation, she traces the interaction of these events and their diplomatic consequences for Europe. Pond shows the political, economic, and social forces at work--leading up to the unification, during the transition process, and in the aftermath. Looking at the European framework, she explains how significantly the European Community and its move toward integration both affected and were affected by German unification. The book contains a wealth of new information form hundreds of interviews with top German and American policymakers, East German Politburo members and average German citizens. It also incorporates up-to-date research on such topics as the Stasi secret police and the midlife crisis of the German left. Pond concludes with an assessment of the roles of the United States and a unified Germany in the new Europe. Calling for a continued partnership between the United States and Germany, who "have come through a common baptism of fire since the fall of the Berlin Wall," Pond casts an optimistic eye toward the future.
Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and the Building of the German Empire in World History
Author: Tom McGowen
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766018228
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Analyzes the achievements of Frederick the Great and Otto von Bismarck, and explains how Bismarck, a Prussion prime minister, was able to unite all of the German states into a single empire nearly one hundred years after the death of Frederick the Great.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766018228
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Analyzes the achievements of Frederick the Great and Otto von Bismarck, and explains how Bismarck, a Prussion prime minister, was able to unite all of the German states into a single empire nearly one hundred years after the death of Frederick the Great.
Dimensions Of German Unification
Author: A. Bradley Shingleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429723547
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
German unification has proven to be a complex, multidimensional process rather than a single political event. Four years after political unification, Germany continues to confront formidable economic, social, and cultural challenges in the unification process. This volume examines some of economic, social and legal aspects of the unification process four years after political unification was achieved.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429723547
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
German unification has proven to be a complex, multidimensional process rather than a single political event. Four years after political unification, Germany continues to confront formidable economic, social, and cultural challenges in the unification process. This volume examines some of economic, social and legal aspects of the unification process four years after political unification was achieved.