Germany: The Long Road West - Volume 1: 1789-1933

Zusatztext magisterial...Winkler's magnum opus. Informationen zum Autor Heinrich August Winkler was born in 1938 in Königsberg. He studied history, philosophy, and public law in Tübingen, Heidelberg and Münster. He was associate professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1970-72 and then professor of modern history in Freiburg until 1991. He has been at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin since 1992, and has been a visiting scholar in Princeton, at the Wilson Center in Washington, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, and at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich. Klappentext Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, this first volume of Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany takes us from the final days of the Holy Roman Empire to the downfall of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Winkler brilliantly synthesizes complex events and illuminates them with fascinating new research, interweaving astute political analysis with profound social and cultural insight. A second volume continues the story to reunification in 1990. Zusammenfassung Offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. This volume 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Legacy of a Millennium 2: Hampered by Progress 1789-1830 3: Liberalism in Crisis 1830-1850 4: Unity before Liberty 1850-1871 5: The Transformation of Nationalism 1871-1890 6: World Policy and World War 1890-1918 7: The Impaired Republic 1918-1933 Looking Ahead

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• Authors: Alexander Sager, H. A. Winkler, H. A. (Professor of Modern History At Hum Winkler, H. A. (Professor of Modern History at Humboldt University Winkler, H.a. Winkler, Heinrich August Winkler, Heinrich August (Emeritus Professor of Mo Winkler, Winkler Heinrich August
• Assisted by: Alexander Sager (Translation), Alexander (Associate Professor of German Sager (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2006
• EAN: 9780199265978
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926597-8
• No. of pages: 610
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, First World War, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I