Germany in the world : a global history, 1500-2000 /
Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. 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. He 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 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. -- adapted from Amazon |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 774 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781631491832 1631491830 |