Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945

ISBN-13: 9780415078122 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 296 str.

Gordon Martel

Opis

In this textbook, leading international scholars provide summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors summarize the nature of the controversies, explain the various interpretations, and offer their own conclusions and arguments. This text the chronological development of the whole range of modern German history, whilst highlighting themes of special interest: the role of women, economics, German liberalism, the Holocaust.

Spis treści

1 Bismarckian Germany 2 Wilhelmine Germany 3 Industry, Empire and the First World War 4 Culture and Politics in the Weimar Republic 5 The Nature of German Liberalism 6 The Rise of National Socialism 1919–1933 7 Women in Modern Germany 8 Nazism and Social Revolution 9 Hitler and the Coming of the War 10 The ‘Final Solution’ 11 The Economic Dimension in German History 12 German History: Past, Present and Future 13 Bibliographical Essay

O autorze

Gordon Martel teaches in the Department of History and Political Economy at the Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, Canada.