A History of Modern Germany

Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2011.

1 online resource (442 p.)

2nd ed.

Description based upon print version of record.. - A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY: 1800 TO THE PRESENT; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: GERMANY UNDER NAPOLEON; The Continental System; Resistance to Napoleon; The Prussian Reform Movement; Prussian Military Reforms; Educational Reform; The Confederation of the Rhine; Germany and the Defeat of Napoleon; The Congress of Vienna; CHAPTER TWO: GERMAN SOCIETY IN TRANSITION; Women and Children; The Household; Town and Country; Agriculture; Industrialization; Class Structure; Jews; Social Change; CHAPTER THREE: RESTORATION AND REFORM: 1815-1840; Demagogues and Radicals. - Bourgeois DiscontentNationalism; The Zollverein; Germany Under Metternich; Catholicism; Liberalism; Radicalism; CHAPTER FOUR: THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848; Revolution; The Frankfurt Parliament; Olmütz; CHAPTER FIVE: THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY: 1850-1866; Austro-Prussian Rivalry; The "New Era"; Changes in the Social Structure; Liberalism and Conservatism; Social Democracy; Prussian Army Reforms; Bismarck; The German Question; The Schleswig-Holstein Question; The Austro-Prussian War; CHAPTER SIX: THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY: 1866-1871; Liberalism, Nationalism, and Particularism; The Franco-Prussian War. - CHAPTER NINE: WILHELMINE GERMANY: 1890-1914William II's System of Government; The Reichstag; Caprivi and the "New Course"; Hohenlohe; Tirpitz, the Navy, and "World Politics"; Navalism and Imperialism; Criticisms of the Naval Building Program; Bülow; Anglo-German Rivalry; The Bülow Bloc; Scandals and Crises; Bethmann Hollweg; The Challenge from Social Democracy; Armaments; The Balkan Crisis of 1912; CHAPTER TEN: THE FIRST WORLD WAR; Attitudes Towards the War; War Aims; German Society in Wartime; Women; Mounting Opposition to the War; The Peace Resolution; The Impact of Bolshevik Revolution. - Hitler Becomes Head of State. - The Failure of the March OffensiveArmistice Negotiations; CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC: 1919-1933; The Treaty of Versailles; The Weimar Constitution; The Kapp Putsch; Reparations; Rapallo; Hyperinflation and the "Struggle for the Ruhr"; Hindenburg Elected President; Locarno; The Depression; The Middle Class; The Working Class; Rural Society; The Demise of Parliamentary Democracy; Brüning; Papen; Schleicher; Hitler Appointed Chancellor; CHAPTER TWELVE: THE NAZI DICTATORSHIP; The Reichstag Fire; Gleichschaltung; The Persecution of the Jews: The First Phase; The SA and the Röhm Putsch. - The German EmpireBonapartism; The Military and Militarism; Nationalism; The German Jewish Community; CHAPTER SEVEN: BISMARCK'S GERMANY; The Kulturkampf; Bismarck and the Liberals; Social Democracy; From Free Trade to Protectionism; The Anti-Socialist Laws; Bismarck's New Course; Social Policy; The Social Structure of Imperial Germany; Food and Drink; Fashion; Women; Attitudes Towards Sexuality; CHAPTER EIGHT: GERMANY AND EUROPE: 1871-1890; The Congress of Berlin; The Dual and Triple Alliances; Colonialism; The Collapse of Bismarck's System of Alliances. - Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present. Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changesFeatures updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and genderIncludes more in depth coverage of the German Democratic RepublicExamines Germany's social, political, and economic historyCov

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