Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000

With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany's evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history-the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime-are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany's leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation's history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation's borders.

About the author

David Blackbourn is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. The author of seven books, including Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Product details

• Authors: David Blackbourn, David Blackburn
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2024
• EAN: 9781324095125
• ISBN: 978-1-324-09512-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Liveright
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / World, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, The Holocaust, General and world history, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War