Germany; [electronic resource] a modern history.
By: Dill, Marshall.
Material type: TextSeries: University of Michigan history of the modern world: Publisher: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1970]Edition: New ed., rev. and enl.Description: x, 490, xxiii p. maps. 25 cm.ISBN: 0472071017; 9780472071012.Subject(s): Germany -- History | Geschichte | DeutschlandDDC classification: 943 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open LibraryIncludes bibliographical references.
The formation of modern Germany -- Religious conflict and territorial triumph -- The eighteenth century, Hapsburg versus Hohenzollern -- France triumphant -- Metternich's Germany -- The revolutionary year -- The chastened fifties -- The decade of the "foundation" -- Bismarck's Germany. I, political -- Bismarck's Germany. II, Economic and social -- Bismarck's Germany. III, intellectual -- Bismarck's Germany. IV, foreign affairs -- Germany jumps a generation -- Wilhelmian Germany. I, Domestic -- Wilhelmian Germany. II, foreign affairs -- World war I -- Defeat in 1918 -- Revolution in 1918 -- Birth pangs of a republic -- The national constituent assembly at Weimar -- The treaty of Versailles -- Growing pains of a republic -- The origins of national socialism -- Fools' paradies of a republic -- The cultural afterglow of the twenties -- Death agony of a republic -- The Nazi revolution -- The Nazi state to 1938. I, political and military -- The Nazi state to 1938. II, economic and social -- The Nazi state to 1938. III, religious and cultural -- The Nazi state to 1938. IV, foreign affairs -- Prelude to war -- World war II. The victorious phase -- World war II. the defeat looms -- Defeat in 1945 -- Occupied Germany -- The two Germanies -- The Germanies in the 1960s.
Explores the paradoxes and complexities of German history. Stresses the 20th century.