The Course of German History
Author | : Alan John Percivale Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan John Percivale Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Katja Hoyer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643138383 |
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.
Author | : Eugène-Napoléon baron Beyens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Hewitson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472578104 |
How can we understand what caused World War I? What role did Germany play? This book encourages us to re-think the events that led to global conflict in 1914.Historians in recent years have argued that German leaders acted defensively or pre-emptively in 1914, conscious of the Reich's deteriorating military and diplomatic position. Germany and the Causes of the First World War challenges such interpretations, placing new emphasis on the idea that the Reich Chancellor, the German Foreign Office and the Great General Staff were confident that they could win a continental war. This belief in Germany's superiority derived primarily from an assumption of French decline and Russian weakness throughout the period between the turn of the century and the eve of the First World War. Accordingly, Wilhelmine policy-makers pursued offensive policies - at the risk of war at important junctures during the 1900s and 1910s. The author analyses the stereotyping of enemy states, representations of war in peacetime, and conceptualizations of international relations. He uncovers the complex role of ruling elites, political parties, big business and the press, and contends that the decade before the First World War witnessed some critical changes in German foreign policy. By the time of the July crisis of 1914, for example, the perception of enemies had altered, with Russia - the traditional bugbear of the German centre and left - becoming the principal opponent of the Reich. Under these changed conditions, German leaders could now pursue their strategy of brinkmanship, using war as an instrument of policy, to its logical conclusion.
Author | : Hedda Kalshoven |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252096177 |
In 1920, at the age of thirteen, Irmgard Gebensleben first traveled from Germany to The Netherlands on a "war-children transport." She would later marry a Dutch man and live and raise her family there while keeping close to her German family and friends through the frequent exchange of letters. Yet during this period geography was not all that separated them. Increasing divergence in political opinions and eventual war between their countries meant letters contained not only family news but personal perspectives on the individual, local, and national choices that would result in the most destructive war in history. This important collection, first assembled by Irmgard Gebensleben's daughter Hedda Kalshoven, gives voice to ordinary Germans in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich and in the occupied Netherlands. The correspondence between Irmgard, her friends, and four generations of her family delve into their most intimate and candid thoughts and feelings about the rise of National Socialism. The responses to the German invasion and occupation of the Netherlands expose the deeply divided loyalties of the family and reveal their attempts to bridge them. Of particular value to historians, the letters evoke the writers' beliefs and their understanding of the events happening around them. This first English translation of Ik denk zoveel aan jullie: Een briefwisseling tussen Nederland en Duitsland 1920-1949, has been edited, abridged, and annotated by Peter Fritzsche with the assent and collaboration of Hedda Kalshoven. After the book's original publication the diary of Irmgard's brother and loyal Wehrmacht soldier, Eberhard, was discovered and edited by Hedda Kalshoven. Fritzsche has drawn on this important additional source in his preface.
Author | : Eugene-Napoleon Beyens |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2018-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781378618998 |
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Author | : R. J. Overy |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393316193 |
"Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century."--Sunday Times (London)
Author | : Marc Henry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : baron Beyens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Egon Harings |
Publisher | : tredition |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3746987369 |
The end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. In Europe, Napoleon rules and decides on nations. In many battles he defeats the armies of European states. Only in his Russian campaign he suffers a great defeat, which continues in the Battle of Leipzig. But only at Waterloo he is finally defeated. For Europe, a new era begins. It is the era of the German fraternities. It follows the German revolution and the first German National Assembly in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church. Prussia and Austria become the ruling powers in Central Europe. After the Franco-Prussian War, the political landscape in Europe is set to change again. The second German Reich is born. Wilhelm I, the Prussian king, becomes German emperor. Germany becomes a world power with colonies in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. This book also reports on German classical music, romanticism and the Biedermeier period. It is the time of famous German composers, writers and painters, but also the time of German inventions that change the world. Many drawings by the author complete this great work.