A Traveller's History of Germany

by Robert Cole

Overview

Germany is the most heavily populated of all the countries within the European Union. A Traveller’s History of Germany offers a complete and authoritative history of a country from the earliest of time to the present. It presents the facts in a clear and literate format and also gives the reader expert analysis of the events.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623710590
Publisher:	Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/30/2014
Series:	Interlink Traveller's Histories
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Robert Cole teaches Modern European History at Utah State University. He has travelled extensively in France, and made numerous trips to Paris. His published books include A Traveller’s History of France (in the same series), a history of British propaganda and European neutral countries in the Second World War, and an analysis of the writing of late British historian A.J.P. Taylor. He has also reviewed extensively for a variety of academic history journals.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
Chapter 1	The Germans and Germany to 800	1
Chapter 2	Medieval Germany, 800-1300	28
Chapter 3	Princes, Cities and Emperors, 1300-1519	51
Chapter 4	Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1519-1648	73
Chapter 5	From Desolation to Enlightenment, 1648-1789	97
Chapter 6	The Coming of Age of Prussia, 1640-1786	118
Chapter 7	Creating the Second Empire, 1789-1871	140
Chapter 8	The Age of Bismarck, 1871-1890	162
Chapter 9	The Age of Wilhelm II, 1890-1918	184
Chapter 10	The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933	208
Chapter 11	Nazi Germany and the Second World War, 1933-1945	230
Chapter 12	After 1945: The Phoenix rising from the Ashes	255
	List of Rulers	285
	Chronology of Major Events	289
	Major Universities and Founding Dates	297
	Select List of Religious Buildings	298
	Selected Readings on German History	304
	Historical Gazetteer	306
	Index	317
	MAPS
	Physical map	2
	The settlements of tribes from 200-600 AD	9
	The kingdom of the Franks	18
	The kingdom of Charles the Great	24
	The Carolingian empire at the treaty of Verdun, 843	29
	Germany in the 10th and 11th centuries	37
	Germany on the eve of the Reformation	74
	The expansion of Brandenburg-Prussia up to 1786	121
	The Versailles Settlement, 1919	204
	The growth of Nazi Germany, 1933-39	244
	Occupied Germany and Austria, 1945	257
	Modern Germany	278