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Klappentext Assuming no prior knowledge! David G. Williamson provides a clear and engaging introduction to the history of Germany from the creation of the German Confederation to the first decade of a reunified Germany. Visual evidence! maps and documents make key information easy to grasp and the core text is supplemented by a glossary! bibliography and key event boxes. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsList of MapsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART ONE: GERMANY UNIFIED! 1815-70Germany Recast: The French Revolutionary Wars and the Vienna Settlement! 1792-1815The Post War Era! 1815-47: Restoration and ChangeRevolution and Reaction! 1848-58The Unification of GermanyPART TWO: THE SECOND REICH! 1871-1918Economic! Social and Cultural TransformationsPolitics from Bismarck to Bethmann HollwegGerman Foreign Policy! 1871-1914Germany at WarPART THREE: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC AND THE THIRD REICHRevolution and Instability! October 1918-1923Partial Stabilization! 1924-29The Change of Regime: The Collapse of Weimar and the Formation and Consolidation of the Third Reich! 1930-34The Third Reich! 1933-39Expansion! War and DefeatPART FOUR: PARTITION AND REUNIFICATION! 1945-90Occupation and Division! 1945-49The Cold War and the Two Germanies! 1950-88Domestic Developments in the Two Germanies! 1949-63The Decades of Challenge: The Two Germanies! 1963-88Reunification and AfterPART FIVE: ASSESSMENTIs There a German Sonderweg?PART SIX: DOCUMENTSChronologyGlossary and AbbreviationsBibliographyNotes and ReferencesIndex
