Modern Germany - Grewe, Bernd-Stefan

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Résumé :

• List of Maps


• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• About the Authors


• Chapter One: A World in Flux: 1500-1648


• The Politics of Empire


• Charles V and Universal Monarchy


• Culture and Society in the Age of Exploration


• The Reformation


• The Social and Political Consequences of the Reformation


• Conclusion


• Chapter Two: Germans in the Age of Absolutism, 1648-1740


• Dynastic Politics, Trade, and Imperial Exchange


• Society, Popular Culture, and Belief


• Conclusion


• Chapter Three: German Empires and Enlightenments, 1740-1790


• Poets, Philosophers, and World Citizens


• Reforming State and Society


• War and Empire


• Conclusion


• Chapter Four: Revolution and Reform, 1789-1815


• The French Revolution in Germany


• The Impact of the Revolution on German States and Peoples, 1803-1815


• The End of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emerging German Nation, 1803-1815


• Conclusion


• Chapter Five: Between Reaction and Revolution, 1815-1848


• Society and Economy


• Culture and Politics in the Vorm?rz


• The Revolutions of 1848


• Conclusion


• Chapter Six: Toward Germany, 1848-1871


• Industry and Society


• German Culture Beyond Borders


• The Politics of Nationhood


• Conclusion


• Chapter Seven: Building Empire at Home and Abroad, 1871-1890


• Building Democracy


• Nation-Building and its Discontents


• Building Empire


• Conclusion


• Chapter Eight: Wilhelmine Germany and World Policy, 1890-1914


• Democracy and Empire


• Progress and Anxiety: Economy, Society and Culture


• Empire and Colonial Policy


• Conclusion


• Chapter Nine: The First World War, 1914-1918


• The Origins and Course of the First World War


• Total War


• Wartime Politics and Revolution


• Conclusion


• Chapter Ten: The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933


• The Challenges of Democracy: Domestic Politics and Socioeconomic Crisis


• The Challenges of Modernity: Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic


• National Conflict and International Compromise, 1919-1933


• Conclusion


• Chapter Eleven: The Third Reich, 1933-1945


• Nazi Politics in a Global Context


• Society and Economy: A National Socialist Revolution?


• The Culture of Coercion and Consent 1933-1939


• Conclusion


• Chapter Twelve: The Second World War, 1939-1945


• Strange Victories, 1938-1941


• Nazi Empire Building, 1941-1943


• Collapse and End of the Second World War, 1943-1945


• Conclusion


• Chapter Thirteen: The Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing, 1941-1945


• Global Contexts: European Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing, and Antisemitism, 1918-1938


• From Jewish Question to Final Solution, 1933-1942


• Conclusion


• Chapter Fourteen: German Republics, 1945-1969


• Germans and the New Postwar Order, 1945-1949


• Culture, Economy, and Society in Two Germanies, 1949-1969


• Cold War Politics and Diplomacy, 1949-1969


• Conclusion



• Biographie:
  Dr. Eric Kurlander, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Stetson University
  
  Doug McGetchin, Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University.
  
  Bernd-Stefan Grewe, Professor of History, Director of the Institute of Didactics of History and Public History, University of T?bingen, Germany.
  
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  Sommaire:
  Modern Germany: A Global History places Germany in a global and transnational context, while offering a broad scope of chronological and thematic coverage. The authors present German-speaking lands in relation to the rest of the world, rather than as discrete entities, bringing global and transnational linkages and interdependencies into focus....